Diagnostic Glance

Sometimes there are challenges to creating a WordPress site that are beyond your current understanding. When that happens, it’s time to ask people in a forum or email a friend. They’ll probably be better able to help diagnose your challenges if they can quickly scan some of the basic settings of your site, your site’s host, and gain a general idea of the number of posts, pages and media that are on your site.

This widget resides on the dashboard and uses the standard dashboard widget “Configure” link. It can be easily hidden or revealed via the screen options pulldown, just like any other dashboard item. It can be dragged to either column to suit your needs.

These are the items this plugin lists:

• WordPress Version
• Themes alphabetically with version and the active theme indicated, plus the total number of installed themes.
• Plugins alphabetically with version and activation indicated, plus the number of active and total plugins.
• WordPress Config with various configured settings that could be helpful.
• Hosting and System Config with Server version, PHP version, MySQL version, some PHP settings.
• PHP Extensions alphabetically, comma-separated, 4 to a row.
• Apache Modules alphabetically, comma-separated, 3 to a row, if the information is available.
• General Site Statistics should be self evident.