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…