Title: Helps Isolate Problematic Plugins & Themes
Last modified: October 10, 2021

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# Helps Isolate Problematic Plugins & Themes

 *  [CGS Web Designs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cgscomputers/)
 * (@cgscomputers)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helps-isolate-problematic-plugins-themes/)
 * I like this plugin a lot and I’m not sure how it’s not part of core WordPress–
   the ability to troubleshoot a live site without affecting user experience is 
   extremely valuable. I leave it installed and active on all my development/testing
   sites while only installing it as necessary on production sites and then removing
   it when troubleshooting is finished.
 * I’ve seen a lot of reviews here stating that troubleshooting mode broke the website–
   I did have an issue once where I enabled troubleshooting mode on a caching plugin–
   this would be expected behavior for a plugin like this especially if one uses
   a caching plugin that modifies .htaccess since troubleshooting mode would not
   undo that change.

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 *  anonymized-14293447
 * (@anonymized-14293447)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helps-isolate-problematic-plugins-themes/#post-15503798)
 * this plugin IS part of the core, and apparently cannot be deactivated from anywhere
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helps-isolate-problematic-plugins-themes/#post-15503802)
 * @arsenalemusica Tools > Site Health is indeed part of core and cannot be deactivated,
   but this is an entirely separate plugin which extends Tools > Site Health and
   can be installed, activated, deactivated, and deleted.
 *  anonymized-14293447
 * (@anonymized-14293447)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helps-isolate-problematic-plugins-themes/#post-15503839)
 * thanks for clarifying that…. they are real clones, though 🙂
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helps-isolate-problematic-plugins-themes/#post-15503854)
 * They definitely are not, Health Check adds several features to Tools > Site Health,
   including a full troubleshooting mode.

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 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/helps-isolate-problematic-plugins-themes/#post-15503854)