GigiHawley Conflict Check for WooCommerce

WooCommerce stores accumulate plugins fast, and it doesn’t take many before something starts breaking — a broken checkout, a duplicate discount, a payment gateway that silently stops working after an update. Finding out which plugin is responsible usually means deactivating things one at a time on your live site and hoping nothing goes wrong while you do it.

This plugin does two things instead:

1. An instant, zero-risk scan. Checks your active plugins against a list of documented, known conflicts (two caching plugins running together, two security firewalls, two SEO plugins fighting over schema markup, and specific vendor-documented pairs like WP Rocket + W3 Total Cache). This is read-only — it never changes anything on your site.

2. Safe test mode. When the scan isn’t enough and you need to actually isolate a plugin, safe test mode lets you do it without risk to your live store: the reduced plugin set is visible only in your own browser session, for up to two hours, and is never written to your site’s database. Every other visitor — and every other admin — keeps seeing your store exactly as it is. Close the tab, and it’s gone; it also expires automatically even if you don’t.

Why it’s built this way

Nothing is ever written to disk or to your plugin list in the database, and every session expires on its own — there is no way to get stuck with plugins disabled and no way back.

Built for WooCommerce stores specifically

General-purpose diagnostic tools treat every WordPress site the same. This one is scoped to WooCommerce stores on purpose: the conflict patterns it checks for, and the language it uses, are about protecting checkout and store functionality, not generic “something looks wrong” alerts.