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What The File

What The File

Site Management Site Diagnostics & Troubleshooting

What The File is a WordPress plugin for Site Diagnostics & Troubleshooting. It ranks #7 of 97 in that group by active installs and was last updated 9 months ago.

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40K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.9 Rating out of 5 From 883 ratings
22 Releases Since 26 August 2012
Feb 2026 Last release 9 months ago

Maintenance check

Is What The File still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

  • No release for a while. The last one was 9 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.9 out of 5 from 883 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 98.1% of the directory

Ahead of 46,824 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

98.1% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
46,824 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
909 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
1.6.1
Requires WordPress
3.1
Tested up to
6.9.11
Requires PHP
5.3
Added to the directory
26 August 2012
Last updated
19 February 2026
Contributors
2
Author
Barry Kooij

Its own tags

  • development
  • file
  • template
  • template editing
  • toolbar

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