Getting Started
- Download the ZIP from your Polar portal, then install it via Plugins → Add Plugin → Upload Plugin
- Go to WP Multitool in the admin sidebar to see all modules
- Enable modules you need - disabled modules add zero overhead
- Click any module below for detailed documentation
Optimization Modules
Slow Query Analyzer
Automatically detects slow database queries, runs MySQL EXPLAIN analysis, and suggests specific index fixes - all locally, with no external API calls.
Autoloader Optimizer
Analyzes wp_options autoload bloat and safely disables autoloading for options from deactivated plugins, oversized values, and known bloat patterns.
Find Slow Callbacks
Profile any page on your site to find the slowest WordPress hook callbacks, identifying exactly which plugin or theme function is causing delays.
Frontend Optimizer
A collection of simple toggle switches for common frontend optimizations: defer scripts, remove emoji bloat, clean wp_head, disable XML-RPC, and strip version strings.
Database Optimizer
Clean up post revisions, expired transients, orphaned metadata, stale cron events, and Action Scheduler logs - with a SQL backup of the deleted rows written first, or nothing is deleted.
System Info
A Site Health dashboard: status pills for PHP, memory, database size, autoload, transients, cron, and caching - plus prioritized recommendations that link the module that fixes each issue.
Site Doctor
One button that scans the whole site - configuration, 21 Redis object-cache checks, a page-cache probe, database bloat and Action Scheduler junk in every install, plus autoload burden and captured slow queries where the Pro modules that produce them are installed - and ranks every finding worst-first, each linked to the module that fixes it.
External Call Optimizer
Stops redundant background HTTP: holds the 12-hour update-check gate when a flaky object cache breaks it, and caches repeated license/telemetry pings from chatty hosts. Security updates and payment traffic are never touched.
Plugin Performance Score
Adds a Performance column to your Plugins page showing real benchmark scores, memory usage, and query counts for ~53,700 popular plugins - from bundled makewpfast.com data, fully local.
Action Scheduler Optimizer
Health dashboard, automatic cleanup, and runner tuning for Action Scheduler - the WooCommerce job queue whose tables grow to gigabytes unnoticed.
Control Modules
Config Manager
Edit wp-config.php constants through a visual interface, with a backup before every change and one-click restore - including a rescue command that works when the site will not load.
Image Manager
See all registered image sizes, disable unused ones, create custom sizes, and regenerate thumbnails selectively.
Shortcode Inspector
Lists every registered shortcode on your site and identifies which plugin or theme registered it.
Dashboard Widget Manager
Hide unwanted dashboard widgets with a simple toggle interface.
Package Downloader
Adds a "Download" link to every plugin and theme so you can grab a ZIP copy directly from the admin.
Quick Updater
Adds a drag-and-drop ZIP upload zone to the Plugins page for quick plugin installs and updates.
Plugin Reactivator
Adds a "Reactivate" link to active plugins for quick deactivate-then-activate troubleshooting.
Debug Log Guard
Stream, group, and safely compact wp-content/debug.log - with an hourly size guard so a runaway log never fills your disk.
Auto Updater
Delivers WP Multitool updates straight from wpmultitool.com through the standard WordPress update UI, using your Polar license key.
Guides
Backups in a Public Folder
The warning means WP Multitool could not store backups above your website root, so it put them in wp-content/uploads, which is a public folder. Whether they can be downloaded depends on your server. Apache honours the protection files the plugin writes. nginx ignores them. Since 1.9.8 the plugin tests each such backup by requesting its address, and deletes it if the server serves it. To check your own site, open the backup's address in a private browser window (step 3). To fix it, ask your host for a folder above the site root (step 4).
Downloads & License Key
Every WP Multitool purchase lives in your Polar customer portal: sign in at polar.sh/we-got-this/portal with the email you paid with, and the zip and your license key are both on the first screen (the discontinued Lite edition had no key - the download is all it lists).
Reinstalling Lite
Lite was discontinued on 2026-11-02 and is frozen at version 1.9.15: your install keeps working, but it gets no further updates, including security updates. To reinstall, download the last zip from your Polar account and upload it over the existing copy - about two minutes.
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Found a bug, or need something it does not do yet?
Report it on the public issue tracker. Bugs and feature requests both go there, and you can read what everyone else has asked for. Licence and billing questions go to support@wpmultitool.com instead.
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