Plugin Detective - Troubleshooting 1.2.28

Does "Plugin Detective - Troubleshooting" work with WordPress 6.9 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
2PHP fatal errors
No JavaScript exceptions
1Page failed to load
  • 1 500 Internal Server Error
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 10.2 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.9
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 5,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-detective/
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Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=plugin-detective%2Fplugin-detective.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=28130a96b6
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.449 s
Memory usage 3.74 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Tools → Plugin Detective

Page screenshot: Tools → Plugin Detective
URL /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/?session=1&nonce=489f4ecff2
Requested URL /wp-admin/tools.php?page=plugin-detective
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 500
Load time 0.159 s
Memory usage N/A
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.241 s
Memory usage 4.11 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.483 s0.404 s-0.079 s3.77 MiB3.79 MiB+ 18.2 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.420 s0.357 s-0.063 s3.78 MiB3.79 MiB+ 15.66 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.867 s1.401 s+0.534 s6.3 MiB6.32 MiB+ 20.09 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.563 s1.138 s+0.575 s3.74 MiB3.73 MiB- 1.75 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.372 s0.485 s+0.113 s3.71 MiB3.71 MiB+ 2.24 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php1.226 s0.357 s-0.869 s3.7 MiB3.71 MiB+ 10.44 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.499 s0.339 s-0.160 s3.71 MiB3.73 MiB+ 21.11 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.858 s0.919 s+0.061 s6.29 MiB6.31 MiB+ 13.88 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.389 s0.461 s+0.072 s3.71 MiB3.71 MiB- 1.26 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.389 s0.409 s+0.020 s3.73 MiB3.73 MiB- 1.76 KiB
/0.373 s0.278 s-0.095 s4.1 MiB4.11 MiB+ 15.37 KiB
Average 0.585 s0.595 s+0.010 s4.23 MiB4.24 MiB+ 10.2 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
Vuejs Component
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP38.0%2,5901,53121
Vuejs Component31.9%2,1761828
JavaScript19.9%1,3595724
Sass7.2%493014
JSON2.1%14503
HTML0.5%3222
SVG0.3%1918
CSS0.1%401
Total 6,818 1,609 101

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 2,483
Total complexity 529
Median class complexity 21.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class PDT_String
Most complex function PDT_Constants::define_constants()
Classes 18
Methods 172
Functions 5

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

No new entries found.

PHP Error Log 28 lines

[04-Dec-2025 04:06:25 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function wp_is_valid_utf8() in /wp-includes/formatting.php:2287
Stack trace:
#0 /wp-includes/class-wp-taxonomy.php(378): sanitize_title_with_dashes()
#1 /wp-includes/class-wp-taxonomy.php(290): WP_Taxonomy->set_props()
#2 /wp-includes/taxonomy.php(532): WP_Taxonomy->__construct()
#3 /wp-includes/taxonomy.php(82): register_taxonomy()
#4 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/includes/class-settings.php(549): create_initial_taxonomies()
#5 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/troubleshoot.php(399): include_once('...')
#6 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/troubleshoot.php(19): PD_Troubleshoot::include_file()
#7 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/includes/class-bootstrap.php(35): pd_troubleshoot_autoload_classes()
#8 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/troubleshoot.php(115): PDT_Bootstrap->__construct()
#9 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/troubleshoot.php(102): PD_Troubleshoot->__construct()
#10 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/troubleshoot.php(462): PD_Troubleshoot::get_instance()
#11 /wp-content/plugins/plugin-detective/troubleshoot/index.php(5): pd_troubleshoot()
#12 {main}
  thrown in /wp-includes/formatting.php on line 2287
[04-Dec-2025 04:06:25 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function wp_is_valid_utf8() in /wp-includes/formatting.php:1140
Stack trace:
#0 /wp-includes/formatting.php(4715): wp_check_invalid_utf8()
#1 /wp-includes/general-template.php(4526): esc_attr()
#2 /wp-includes/functions.php(3906): get_language_attributes()
#3 /wp-includes/functions.php(3839): _default_wp_die_handler()
#4 /wp-includes/class-wp-fatal-error-handler.php(245): wp_die()
#5 /wp-includes/class-wp-fatal-error-handler.php(156): WP_Fatal_Error_Handler->display_default_error_template()
#6 /wp-includes/class-wp-fatal-error-handler.php(60): WP_Fatal_Error_Handler->display_error_template()
#7 [internal function]: WP_Fatal_Error_Handler->handle()
#8 {main}
  thrown in /wp-includes/formatting.php on line 1140
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "Plugin Detective" Admin Menu