Inspects your WordPress media library and permalink layer for orphaned files, broken attachment references, and stale rewrite rules that quietly degrade user experience.
WordPress sites accumulate content debt invisibly. Media files get deleted from the filesystem without the attachment record being removed. Images get uploaded but never attached to any post. Rewrite rules go stale after plugin changes but never get flushed. None of these cause obvious errors — they just quietly degrade performance, break images, and create 404 errors that erode WordPress SEO. Content Health surfaces all of it with purely observational reads.
Checks every attachment record in wp_posts against the actual filesystem to detect missing physical files, unattached media (uploaded but not linked to any post), and attachments with broken or incomplete WordPress metadata.
Lists all active WordPress rewrite rules, detects whether they are stale (out of sync with the current plugin and theme state), and identifies plugin-added rules that may conflict with each other — a common cause of WordPress 404 errors after plugin updates.
Scans post content for image and attachment references that point to media IDs that no longer exist in the database. Invisible to editors but they cause broken image placeholders for visitors and may affect page performance.
Content Health never flushes WordPress rewrite rules, never modifies attachment records, and never deletes any media files. Every finding is a report — all remediation decisions remain entirely with you.
It uses PHP's file_exists() function against the attachment's upload path derived from its metadata and WordPress's upload directory configuration. It does not make HTTP requests to verify image URLs.
The check is batched and paginated to avoid memory exhaustion. On large WordPress media libraries the check may take several seconds but will not time out on standard hosting. Very large libraries (50,000+ attachments) include a note about expected processing time.
No — the module is strictly read-only. To flush WordPress rewrite rules, navigate to Settings › Permalinks and save without making any changes. This takes one second and is completely safe.
No. Content Health is a Pro-exclusive module.
Broken WordPress media, orphaned files, and stale rewrite rules — surfaced without touching a single byte of your data.
Content Health is included in every Pro plan alongside all seventeen diagnostic modules.
Download Lite to get started with the nine core WordPress diagnostic modules — completely free.
