About this plugin
Balaeno Webmaster keeps your WordPress site healthy without drowning you in
technical jargon. It continuously checks your site, explains problems in plain
language, and — depending on the automation level you choose — fixes them safely
or asks for your approval first.
Its defining feature is the Safe Fix Engine: it doesn’t just report problems,
it turns them into controlled, described, reversible, policy-gated fixes.
What it does
- Command Center — one plain-language answer to “is my website okay?”, with a
health score and at-a-glance module status.
- Health monitoring — homepage availability, cron health, HTTPS, REST API and
SSL certificate expiry.
- Updates — surfaces available plugin, theme and core updates, and inactive
plugins, as clear issues.
- Security hardening checks — exposed debug logs, error display, the built-in
file editor, username exposure, default table prefix and an “admin” account.
- Performance signals — autoloaded-options bloat, missing persistent object
cache and a low PHP memory limit.
- Database cleanup — post revisions, spam and trashed comments, and orphaned
metadata, cleaned only after a verified backup.
- Backups — a verified, gzipped database backup behind a pluggable destination.
- Email delivery — notices when email fails, plus a one-click test.
- Maintenance mode, on-demand tests, and printable reports.
Automation levels
- Monitor only — detect and report, change nothing.
- Safe automation (recommended) — apply low-risk, reversible fixes automatically.
- Approval required — every fix waits for your explicit approval.
- Managed — approved maintenance rules run automatically with rollback protection.
Lean by design
The plugin is a light orchestrator. Heavy or external work — real uptime
monitoring, visual/page testing, vulnerability data, malware scanning, offsite
backups, SMS/WhatsApp alerts — is handled by the optional Balaeno Pro service, so
your server stays fast even on managed and shared hosting. Those features are
clearly marked “Pro” in the dashboard and are never faked.
Development
The admin dashboard is a React application. The readable source lives in this plugin
under assets/src/ (JSX and SCSS) and is compiled to assets/build/ with WordPress’s
official build tooling. To rebuild from source:
npm install then `npm run build` (uses @wordpress/scripts / webpack).