WordPress has recently introduced a health widget in the dashboard. It indicates the health of your website. I have been getting questions on it. It looks like this.
I have not done anything yet on this site (my site) so let’s take a look. First thing is not to wholly believe what it says. But we should check it out. I have clicked on the Site Health Screen link. It takes me to here.
The first thing to note is at the top. It is now running some tests. Which infers it did not really know what the state of the website is.
We have 0 critical problems, if you ever find you have one or more in this space alert me immediately. A critical problem could bring your website down.
The two recommended improvements show that I have one or more themes that are not in use, I should remove them.
It also says I have one or more plugins loaded which I am not using, I should remove them. Both of these are security precautions. In our case, not that important.
The last one relates to a function in the hosting which I have never seen anywhere, and is not supported by this hosting. It too is non critical. However it is worth checking by opening the box.
In the meantime while we have been thinking about this page the Site Health has changed to:
… GOOD. Well I did not do anything to the site. Unfortunately the way this has been implemented is a little alarmist. I don’t mind WordPress mandarins building a stronger and more robust platform, but this feature is not a great implementation as it turns out.
Check for yourselves
When you next login, give it a try and see what the page says. If you see something there after you have loaded it and are concerned, let me know and I will check it out for you.