How to Detect Plugin Conflicts on WordPress

When to use this guide

If something in Linkilo isn't working — suggestions aren't loading, a settings page is blank, an action throws an error — there's a good chance another active plugin is interfering. This guide walks you through isolating the conflict without taking your live site down.

Use Health Check & Troubleshooting (recommended)

WordPress has a free plugin called Health Check & Troubleshooting that lets you disable plugins for your session only — other visitors keep seeing the site normally.

Step 1 — Install Health Check

1. Plugins → Add New
2. Search for "Health Check & Troubleshooting"
3. Install and Activate

Step 2 — Enable troubleshooting mode

1. Tools → Site Health → Troubleshooting tab
2. Click Enable Troubleshooting Mode

Now all plugins are disabled for your admin session only — your live visitors are unaffected.

Step 3 — Enable Linkilo only

1. In the admin menu, look for the Troubleshooting Mode dropdown at the top
2. Click Plugins
3. Enable Linkilo in the list (leave everything else off)
4. Leave the theme on the default — don't enable your custom theme yet

Step 4 — Reproduce the issue

Go to the page where you saw the problem. If the issue is gone, the conflict is with another plugin. If the issue is still there, it's between Linkilo and your theme — re-enable your theme through the dropdown and confirm.

Step 5 — Find the culprit

• Re-enable plugins one at a time through the dropdown.
• After enabling each one, retest the broken page.
• The plugin that brings the issue back is the conflicting one.

Step 6 — Tell us

Open a ticket with the name of the conflicting plugin and a screenshot of the issue. We've fixed dozens of these and most are quick patches.

Alternative — manual deactivation

If you can't install Health Check, do it the old-school way:

1. Make a backup
2. Plugins → Installed Plugins → bulk-deactivate everything except Linkilo
3. Reproduce the issue. If it's gone, you know it's a plugin conflict.
4. Reactivate plugins one at a time, testing each time.

This takes the site down briefly during the test, so prefer Health Check on production sites.