Scotty

Scotty is the all-in-one solution for controlling, cleaning, and optimizing your WordPress site. With a modern React-based dashboard and a powerful feature suite, Scotty empowers you to analyze and maintain your database, manage cron jobs, fine-tune security, and control dozens of hidden WordPress settings — all from a single, intuitive interface.

For full documentation, visit the Scotty website.

Cleaning

• Trash Management — Delete post revisions, auto-drafts, trashed posts, unapproved/spam/trashed comments, orphaned metadata, and transient options in bulk or one by one.
• Duplicates Detection — Identify and remove duplicate entries across post meta, comment meta, user meta, and term meta tables.
• Orphan Cleanup — Find and delete orphaned records in postmeta, commentmeta, usermeta, termmeta, and term relationships.

Optimization

• Database — View all database tables with engine, auto-increment, collation, and overhead info. Optimize tables and reset auto-increment values individually or in bulk.
• Disk Usage — Overview of WordPress installation size breakdown: core, themes, plugins, uploads, and database.

System

• Cron Manager — View all scheduled cron jobs with next run time, schedule, interval, and arguments. Run, delete, search, sort, and bulk-manage cron jobs. Color-coded schedule badges and time-relative status indicators.
• Shortcode Registry — Browse all registered shortcodes with their callback functions and callable status.

WordPress Settings

Control dozens of WordPress settings organized in 6 tabs:

General

• Enable/disable REST API and XML-RPC
• Hide WordPress version from source code
• Hide detailed login error messages
• Disable email authentication
• Disable the built-in file editor
• Disable author archives (prevents user enumeration)
• Disable Application Passwords

Admin

• Show/hide admin footer credit and version
• Show/hide the Welcome panel
• Toggle visibility of Dashboard, Posts, Media, Pages, Comments, and Tools menu items
• Disable update nags for non-admin users
• Disable the periodic admin email verification prompt

Writing

• Limit the number of post revisions
• Disable self-pings
• Configure auto-empty trash interval

Reading

• Set custom excerpt length
• Hide admin bar on frontend
• Disable emoji scripts and styles
• Disable embed scripts (wp-embed.js)
• Disable jQuery Migrate on frontend
• Disable RSS and Atom feeds

Performance

• Disable Heartbeat API on frontend
• Set custom Heartbeat interval
• Remove Dashicons CSS from frontend for non-admin users

Media

• Disable big image scaling (WordPress 5.3+)
• Set custom JPEG compression quality

Dashboard Widget

A compact dashboard widget on the WordPress Dashboard showing posts, comments, users, and options breakdown with progress bars, plus database size and cron count at a glance.

Coming Soon

• Multisite support
• Database rename, truncate, drop, export, import
• Database search and replace
• Database backup
• Scheduled auto-cleaning
• Spotlight search (CMD+K)
• And more…