Scanfully
Scanfully monitors your WordPress sites for downtime, performance changes, vulnerabilities, broken content, email delivery problems, DNS changes, SSL issues, and important activity.
Solid choice
Scanfully is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 100+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 1 week ago, and scores 75/100 on our health check.
- Actively developed — last update 1 week ago
- Tested with the latest WordPress (7.1)
- Small user base (100+ active installs)
- Very few reviews so far
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Scanfully stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| Activity Log | #97 |
| broken links | #77 |
| broken media | #55 |
| monitoring | >100 |
| site health | #68 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 1 reviews
About Scanfully
From the official readme · v1.7.0Description
Scanfully monitors your WordPress sites for downtime, performance changes, vulnerabilities, broken content, email delivery problems, DNS changes, SSL issues, and important activity.
SCANFULLY FOR WORDPRESS
Your WordPress site can be online while other things are already going wrong.
Emails can stop arriving. Images can disappear. Performance can drop. DNS can change. SSL can fail. A vulnerable plugin can remain installed.
Scanfully monitors those signals and combines them with activity from inside WordPress. This gives you a clearer picture of what changed, what failed, and what needs attention.
The Scanfully plugin connects your WordPress site to your Scanfully dashboard. It securely syncs essential site information, Site Health data, and WordPress activity.
Scanfully stores and processes monitoring data outside WordPress. This keeps most monitoring work away from your site’s database and frontend.
External checks monitor uptime, performance, SSL, DNS, vulnerabilities, content, and email deliverability. Meanwhile, the plugin provides the WordPress context around those checks.
Together, those signals help you spot problems earlier and understand what happened around the same time.
SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING ACROSS YOUR WORDPRESS SITES
Scanfully brings monitoring data from all your connected WordPress sites into one dashboard.
But putting everything in one place is only part of the value.
Monitoring signals become much more useful when you can see them together.
A plugin update might be followed by a performance drop. A DNS change might affect email delivery. A content edit might introduce broken images or links.
Scanfully combines those events and checks, so you have more context when something changes.
Instead of jumping between different monitoring tools and WordPress dashboards, you can see what happened from one place.
SCANFULLY FEATURES
Scanfully monitors different parts of your WordPress sites because site health is more than uptime alone.
WORDPRESS ACTIVITY LOG
Scanfully records important activity from inside WordPress.
This includes events such as plugin changes, theme changes, content updates, logins, and other WordPress activity.
The Activity Log becomes especially useful when you compare those events with monitoring data. It helps you understand what changed before a problem appeared.
UPTIME MONITORING
Scanfully checks whether your WordPress sites remain available and reachable.
It records outages and recoveries, and it can notify you when availability changes.
Our uptime monitoring also supports CDN-aware checks for sites that sit behind a CDN.
PERFORMANCE MONITORING
Scanfully runs regular performance checks and tracks how site speed changes over time.
The dashboard shows performance in easy-to-read graphs, so you can spot slowdowns and investigate when they started.
Performance data can include DNS lookup time, connection time, TLS negotiation, TTFB, and download time.
This helps you look beyond a single page-load number when diagnosing a slowdown.
SITE HEALTH
Scanfully collects Site Health information from WordPress and brings it into your Scanfully dashboard.
You can review important WordPress health data without logging into every individual site.
This becomes especially useful when you manage several WordPress sites.
CONTENT HEALTH
A site can be online and fast while parts of its content are still broken.
Scanfully’s Content Health monitoring checks links and media used across your pages.
The Broken Links monitor checks internal and external links and identifies links that no longer work. It also shows where Scanfully found them.
The Broken Media monitor checks images, scripts, stylesheets, videos, audio, embeds, and iframes. It identifies assets that fail to load and shows where they are used.
Together, these checks help you find content problems before visitors or clients report them.
SSL CERTIFICATE MONITORING
Scanfully checks whether your site’s SSL certificate is still present and working correctly.
SSL problems can affect browser trust, forms, payment flows, redirects, integrations, and other site functionality.
Monitoring helps you spot certificate problems before they remain unnoticed for too long.
DNS MONITORING
Scanfully monitors important DNS records and changes.
DNS affects far more than where your website points. It also plays a role in email delivery, SSL, CDN behavior, and site availability.
Tracking DNS alongside your other monitoring data gives you more context when something suddenly stops working.
VULNERABILITY MONITORING
Scanfully checks installed WordPress plugins and themes for known vulnerabilities.
When a known vulnerability affects software on one of your sites, Scanfully gives you the information needed to investigate it.
This helps you focus on vulnerabilities that are actually relevant to the WordPress sites you manage.
EMAIL DELIVERABILITY MONITORING
WordPress can report that an email was sent even when that message never reaches an inbox.
Scanfully monitors the email delivery path beyond the initial WordPress send attempt.
It can check mail delivery, important DNS authentication records, blocklist status, and whether a test message reaches an actual inbox.
This helps you detect problems affecting contact forms, password resets, WooCommerce emails, membership emails, and other WordPress-generated messages.
SMART NOTIFICATIONS
Scanfully notifies you when monitored events need your attention.
You decide where those notifications should go using notification channels.
Scanfully currently supports email, Slack, Discord, and Pushover.
The goal is to surface useful changes without forcing you to watch the dashboard all day.
SHAREABLE REPORTS
Some findings need to be shared with clients, team members, or other people responsible for the site.
Scanfully supports shareable reports that give others direct access to relevant findings.
This is particularly useful for Content Health reports covering broken links and broken media.
Instead of sending screenshots or manually rewriting findings, you can share the actual results.
MONITOR WORDPRESS WITH MORE CONTEXT
No single check can tell you whether a WordPress site is healthy.
A site can be online but slow. It can be fast but contain broken images. WordPress can send an email that never arrives. DNS can change while WordPress itself looks perfectly normal.
That is why Scanfully monitors your site from several angles.
It combines external monitoring with information from inside WordPress, giving you better visibility into what changed and what needs attention.
Monitoring does not prevent every problem.
But it gives you a better chance of spotting problems earlier, diagnosing them faster, and understanding what happened.
More information
- Visit the Scanfully website
- Find and contact us on X(formerly Twitter): @scanfullyapp
- Follow us on LinkedIn
Installation
Starting with Scanfully consists of just two steps: installing and setting up the plugin. Scanfully is designed to work with your site’s specific needs, so remember to connect your WordPress site with your Scanfully Dashboard.
INSTALL SCANFULLY FOR WORDPRESS FROM WITHIN WORDPRESS
- Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select “Add New”;
- Search for ‘Scanfully’;
- Activate Scanfully from your Plugins page;
- Go to “after activation” below.
INSTALL SCANFULLY FOR WORDPRESS MANUALLY
- Upload the scanfully folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory; - Activate the Scanfully for WordPress plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress;
- Go to ‘after activation’ below.
AFTER ACTIVATION
- Connect your WordPress site to your Scanfully Dashboard.
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect my website to Scanfully?
Go to Settings > Scanfully in your WordPress admin and click the “Connect” button. You will be redirected to your Scanfully dashboard to authorize the connection. Once approved, you will be redirected back to your WordPress site and the connection is complete.
Where’s the Scanfully settings screen?
Settings > Scanfully.
Does the plugin impact my page speed?
Scanfully is designed to keep monitoring work away from frontend page loads. The plugin collects WordPress activity and Site Health data, then sends that information to Scanfully in the background. External monitoring and data processing happen outside your WordPress site.
Changelog
None yet.
1.7.0: September 21, 2026
- Added: WooCommerce checkout monitoring support.
- Added: PHPCS, PHPStan, PHPUnit and wp-env tooling with composer scripts and QA workflow
- Added: uninstall cleanup that removes all plugin options, scheduled jobs and the WooCheckout probe user
- Fixed: connect success handler continuing to render the page after redirecting
- Fixed: token refresh locking sites out when refreshes overlap or the API returns an error response
- Fixed: deactivation leaving queued event jobs behind and queueing new jobs for Scanfully itself
- Fixed: email deliverability check interval from the API is kept between 15 minutes and 7 days
- Fixed: manual email deliverability check postponing the scheduled checks
- Fixed: update events reported for failed installs, for Scanfully itself in other folders, and with the wrong version for themes outside the default theme folder
- Fixed: email deliverability checks treating API problems as mail failures and missing real first failures
- Fixed: directory sizes reported as 0 or stale; they are now measured fresh and skipped when they can’t be measured
- Fixed: Scanfully settings page saves waiting on slow Scanfully API calls
- Fixed: Scanfully settings page breaking on an unreadable stored date
- Fixed: token refresh resetting the connection date and last-used date
- Fixed: Scanfully admin notices showing to users who can’t manage the connection
- Fixed: recurring job checks running on every front-end request and possible duplicate recurring jobs
- Fixed: dates shown in UTC on sites that use a manual UTC offset
- Fixed: site ID not encoded in API URLs, and the dashboard button ignoring the dashboard URL filter
- Fixed: connect notices showing HTML entities for translated text with special characters
- Fixed: site health data raising a warning when collected under WP-CLI or a system cron
- Fixed: slow user count on large sites, and database size including other installs’ tables
- Fixed: single-file plugins reported with the slug “.” in site health data
- Fixed: site health reporting the raised PHP memory limit instead of the normal one
- Fixed: publish events dropped right after a draft save, and Quick Edit and page builder saves missing from the timeline
- Fixed: rewrite rule flushes creating repeated timeline events
- Fixed: oversized timeline events being dropped, and update events crashing on invalid input
- Fixed: timeline events silently lost when the API rejects them; temporary failures are now retried
- Fixed: email deliverability checks with a guessable nonce, slow transport detection and long timeouts; added a setting to turn the checks off
- Security: post passwords are no longer sent in timeline events
- Security: connect flow accepting an empty state, which let a forged link connect the site to another Scanfully account
- Security: API requests now verify TLS certificates
- Security: stricter site ID validation in the connect flow
- Security: edit shortcut no longer redirects visitors who can’t edit, and its responses are never cached
- Security: email deliverability checks are only sent to Scanfully ping addresses
- Security: API tokens are no longer loaded on every request
- Security: site API tokens are revoked on disconnect, reconnect and uninstall
1.6.0: August 20, 2026
- Added: report OS distribution (os_id, os_id_like, os_version) in health data
- Added: on-demand REST endpoint to trigger site health and directory sync
- Fixed: validate token response before constructing Options to prevent fatal TypeError
- Fixed: email deliverability cadence stuck on 30-minute interval due to false-positive wp_mail() failures
- Fixed: prevent duplicate email deliverability ping actions by using a self-scheduling single action
- Fixed: clear refresh-failure state on successful API requests to prevent false broken-connection notice
1.5.1: April 28, 2026
- Added: configurable From address override for email deliverability pings
1.5.0: April 27, 2026
- Added: email deliverability monitoring via Action Scheduler and plugin admin UI
- Fixed: prevent Action Scheduler args overflow on PostSaved events by summarizing post data
1.4.0: April 20, 2026
- Added: Debounced health data sync after plugin install, removal, update, and activation changes.
- Added: Admin notice when Scanfully connection is stale for over 2 days with one-click reconnect button.
- Added: Refresh failure tracking with error reason in stale connection notice
- Added: Background job processing via Action Scheduler for events and health sync, replacing blocking inline API calls and WP-Cron.
- Added: wordpress-stubs dev dependency.
- Changed: Update last_used only on confirmed successful API responses.
- Changed: FAQ connect instructions to reflect OAuth flow.
- Changed: Site data sync frequency from twice daily to every 3 hours.
- Fixed: Send site health data instead of legacy twice_daily hook on connect.
1.3.1: February 6, 2026
- Fix: Use home_url() instead of get_site_url() for site URL detection.
- Fix: Improved SSL detection for sites behind reverse proxies and load balancers.
- Fix: Meta changes and updates.
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FAQ
Scanfully: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 1, 2026
Is Scanfully free?
Yes. Scanfully is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Scanfully safe to use in 2026?
Scanfully is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 100+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 1 week ago, and scores 75/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Scanfully?
Scanfully is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 9,162 times since it launched in November 2023. It was downloaded 423 times in the last 30 days.
Does Scanfully work with WordPress 7.1?
Yes. The developer has tested Scanfully up to WordPress 7.1.0, the latest release. It requires WordPress 6.0 or newer.
What PHP version does Scanfully need?
Scanfully requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was Scanfully last updated?
The latest version, 1.7.0, was released on September 21, 2026 (1 week ago).
Who makes Scanfully?
Scanfully is developed and maintained by Scanfully.
What are the best alternatives to Scanfully?
The most popular alternatives to Scanfully are WP Activity Log (300K+ installs), Activity Log (200K+ installs) and Stream (70K+ installs).
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