Tools & Maintenance
What it helps you do
Run sitewide housekeeping from one screen — fix alt text in content, audit links, regenerate image sizes, flush caches, and spot stale posts — without installing separate plugins or writing SQL.
Where to find it
- Dirigible → Tools & Maintenance in the WordPress admin sidebar.
Tools are grouped into Content gardening, Media, Forms, Database & cache, and Site health. Each card explains what it does before you run it.
How to use it
- Open Dirigible → Tools & Maintenance.
- Choose a category that matches your task.
- On most tools, pick which post types to include (when offered), then click Run or Scan.
- Read the log panel for results, edit links, and download buttons.
- For destructive or write tools, scan first, review the preview, then confirm.
Common tasks
| Goal | Tool |
|---|---|
| Block alt text does not match the media library | Sync alt tags |
| Old block markup after a plugin update | Update blocks |
| Broken links in page content | Audit broken links |
| Quick WCAG triage on rendered pages | Accessibility audit |
| Permalink structure changed | Redirect CSV generator |
| Find old pages to refresh | Stale content report |
| Images missing alt in the library | Missing alt text report |
| New image sizes after a theme update | Generate missing image sizes |
| Clear expired caches | Flush transients |
| Gravity Forms notification issues | GF config audit (when Gravity Forms is active) |
What happens automatically
- Generate missing image sizes can also run once in the background after deploy when registered sizes change — the manual tool is for larger backlogs.
- Index media hashes runs in the background so duplicate detection improves over time; use the card to finish indexing faster.
- Update blocks and Accessibility audit load each page in a hidden frame so block registration matches the real editor and front end.
- Scan-only tools never change content — they return lists and edit links.
Things to know
- Destructive tools (Orphaned metadata cleanup, Spam & trashed comment purge, Delete unused image sizes, and similar) say when there is no undo. Scan before you delete.
- Find & replace only searches post content — not settings, menus, or serialized data in other areas.
- Accessibility audit catches machine-detectable issues only; it is a triage aid, not proof of compliance.
- Redirect CSV generator downloads a file for the Redirection plugin — it does not create redirects on the site by itself.
- Forms tools appear only when Gravity Forms is installed and active.
- Administrator-only: you need permission to manage site options to open this screen.