Website tools

The Templ Panel bundles a set of one-click tools for common maintenance and rescue tasks - from analyzing disk usage to unlocking a site stuck in maintenance mode. Open your website in the Templ Panel and go to the Tools tab to use them. This page lists every tool and what it does.

Disk Usage

Shows which files and folders use the most disk space on your website, without needing SSH. Click Analyze Disk Usage to scan the site and list the largest items by size.

For what to do with the results, see Reduce disk usage.

Check For Vulnerabilities

Checks your WordPress core, themes, and plugins against a database of known vulnerabilities, so you can update before your site gets hacked. Each finding shows which version patches the security hole.

See Find vulnerabilities for a full walkthrough.

Clear Banned IPs

Templ automatically bans an IP address after multiple failed SFTP or SSH login attempts. If your own IP gets banned, the site appears down from your connection only. This tool lifts the ban for the IP you're connecting from.

See Clear banned IPs for details.

Install Templ Plugins

Installs the Templ WordPress plugins: Templ Cache for server-side caching, Templ Token Login for one-click WP Admin login from the Panel, and more. Also useful for reinstalling them if they were removed.

See Install Templ plugins for what each plugin does.

Deactivate Plugins

Deactivates a single plugin by its slug, or all plugins at once - handy when a plugin has broken the site or locked you out of WP Admin, since it works without WP Admin access.

See Deactivate plugins for a full walkthrough.

Fix File Permissions

On rare occasions your site's file permissions can end up wrong, which blocks you from editing or uploading files. Click Fix Permissions to repair the permissions on all your site's files.

Fix Domain

After you manually import a database, it still contains your old site URL. This tool sets the correct WordPress Address (URL) and replaces all occurrences of the old domain in the database with the correct one.

It's a standard step in a manual migration. The equivalent over SSH is a wp search-replace with WP-CLI - see SSH & WP-CLI.

Deactivate Maintenance Mode

When WordPress updates itself, a plugin, or a theme, it briefly puts the site into maintenance mode. If an interrupted update leaves the site stuck showing "Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance", this tool removes the file holding it in maintenance mode.

See Stuck in maintenance mode for details.

Reinstall WordPress

Deletes all the site's content and installs a fresh copy of WordPress. Useful when you want to start over on an existing website.

Reinstalling deletes all files and the database on the site, and can't be undone. Take a backup first if there's anything you might want to keep.

Looking for cloning?

Clone Website lives on the Import/migration tab, not the Tools tab. See Clone a website.