WellTend Health Monitor tells you, in plain English, whether your WordPress site needs attention. It gives you one health score and a short list of what to fix first. This page covers the first ten minutes.
You need WordPress 6.4 or newer, PHP 7.4 or newer, and an administrator account.
Install#
- Go to Plugins → Add New Plugin, search for "WellTend Health Monitor", and click Install Now, then Activate.
- Open AllWPCare → Site Health in the admin sidebar.
Activation does not change your site. About half a minute after you activate it, the plugin runs its first pass in the background, and your first score appears on that screen and in a small widget on the dashboard. If you open the screen sooner, it says the first check is running.
Read the Overview#
The Overview tab shows three things.
- The score, from 0 to 100, with a word and an icon: Healthy, Needs attention or At risk. See how the score works.
- Fix these first: the three items costing the most points, each with one plain sentence and a "How to fix" link.
- History: the score over 30 days, 90 days or a year, so you can see whether things are getting better.
Each "How to fix" link opens allwpcare.com/fix/<check-id>/, which sends you to the best guide for that check. Those links are ordinary links in your browser. The plugin never requests them itself.
The other tabs#
- Checks lists every check in plain language, what it saw, and how to fix it. You can run one check again, or snooze it. See the checks reference.
- Error log reads your PHP error log safely and groups errors by the plugin or theme that wrote them. If it says there is no log, many hosts keep PHP errors where WordPress cannot read them: turn on
WP_DEBUG_LOG, or enter the path to your log in settings. - Reports & settings holds the weekly email, the email test, the vulnerability lookup, and the exact list of what leaves your site.
Snooze what you have decided to accept#
Some items are real but not yours to fix, such as a PHP memory limit set by your host. Snooze the check for 7, 30 or 90 days, or choose "I understand and accept" with a note. A snoozed check stays on the list, in its own section, and stops counting toward the score.
Optional extras, all off by default#
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Weekly email report | One short email with the score, what to fix first and a few counts. Counts and names only, never raw log text. |
| Alerts | An email when a new critical issue appears. |
| Look up known security problems | Checks your WordPress.org plugins and themes against a free public list. This is the only feature that contacts another service. See Privacy and external services. |
Both emails go through your own site's mail setup, to addresses you enter. Use the email test first: it sends a message with a confirmation link, which proves that mail leaves your server rather than only that wp_mail() returned true.
From the command line#
Everything on the Overview is also available from WP-CLI: wp awc health status prints the score and exits with status 1 when a check has failed, so a deploy script or a monitor can use it. See the WP-CLI reference.
With the other plugins#
If WellTend Snapshots is active, WellTend Health Monitor's settings are included in its snapshots and exports under the id health.settings. History, error samples and results are never exported. WellTend Site and Admin Toolkit shares the same AllWPCare menu.
Removing it#
Deleting the plugin removes its tables, options and scheduled events. Everything it stores can be created again by a new run.