Maintain Hero Monitor gives site owners a straightforward view of WordPress issues worth reviewing without requiring an external account or license.

The free plugin includes:

Website Health score and dashboard.
Core WordPress configuration and update checks.
Basic SEO visibility checks.
Basic production/security configuration checks.
Media Library image alt-text review count.
Site-wide broken-link crawl that follows discoverable internal pages and checks the links found across the site.
Issue Center with plain-English recommendations.

To keep the headline Website Health score consistent with the public Maintain Hero Website Health Check, the free plugin includes the same public-facing scoring engine and runs it locally from the WordPress site. It does not contact wpmaintainhero.com to retrieve a score. Local WordPress findings remain separate from the headline public-facing score. A separately distributed premium add-on is available from WP Maintain Hero for advanced audits, vulnerability intelligence, client reports, health history, automatic monitoring, and repair tools. Premium code is not included in this WordPress.org package.

Privacy

The free plugin stores scan results in the site’s own WordPress database. It does not create a WP Maintain Hero account and does not send site-health scan data to WP Maintain Hero.

When a Website Health check runs, the plugin requests the site’s own public pages and related public URLs so it can evaluate the same public-facing signals used by the Maintain Hero Website Health Check. For WordPress version and publicly detected plugin-version comparisons, it may query the official WordPress.org APIs. If the hosting server cannot retrieve its own public homepage, the scanner may use the Jina AI Reader service (r.jina.ai) as a fallback to retrieve public page content; origin-only checks remain ungraded in that fallback mode. No local WordPress issue list, Media Library data, administrator data, or private content is sent to those services.

When an administrator manually runs the Broken Links scan, WordPress follows discoverable internal pages and makes HTTP requests to the links found across the site so their response status can be checked. This can include external links already present on those pages. Generous safety limits protect against runaway dynamically generated URLs on unusually large sites.

The optional Upgrade to Pro links open the WP Maintain Hero website in a new browser tab.