Title: WP Mechanic
Author: Fahad Mahmood
Published: <strong>July 25, 2013</strong>
Last modified: November 4, 2024

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP Mechanic

 By [Fahad Mahmood](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fahadmahmood/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-mechanic.1.6.9.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mechanic/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mechanic/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mechanic/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mechanic/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-mechanic/)

## Description

 * Author: [Fahad Mahmood](http://www.androidbubbles.com/contact)
 * Project URI: [https://androidbubble.com/blog/wordpress/plugins/wordpress-mechanic](https://androidbubble.com/blog/wordpress/plugins/wordpress-mechanic)
 * w3 Existence: [https://wpmechanic.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/wordpress-mechanic-around-the-world](https://wpmechanic.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/wordpress-mechanic-around-the-world)
 * License: GPL 3. See License below for copyright jots and tittles.

WordPress Mechanic is a combination of FAQ feeds, malware scanner, deprecated functions
scanner and many other useful utilities. You don’t need to google every small issue,
just browse with your WordPress mechanic or ask a new question if you are tired 
of searching and still not getting the desired answer. You are welcome to query 
anything, WordPress mechanic will provide you the ultimate support. This plugin 
will bridge the gap for developer who don’t have time to go to community sites and
search for questions to answer. They will see the questions on their dashboard and
will reply to you. You can appreciate them through the same way, every answer will
have a donate link of relevant user. That can be anyone, either a developer or any
WordPress geek. By this both users and developers will save their time. The idea
behind this plugin is to speedup the learning process. People will ask anything 
without hesitation either a newbie thing. But we will moderate questions and answers
because we are here to deliver the value so quality matters.

Important!

1- You can ask questions to WordPress experts.

2- You can learn WordPress in better way without hesitation.

3- If you are a WordPress expert, then you can reply to the answers and put your
donate link in specific field. If user will love your support, you might be appreciated.

4- WordPress Mechanic API is in testing phase as beta version so that will be launched
soon. But still questions can be asked and a no. of WordPress experts are available
to help you on your dashboard.

### License

The WordPress Mechanic plugin is copyright © 2010-2020 by Fahad Mahmood. It uses
custom code written by Fahad Mahmood or taken from open discussion forum(s) according
to the terms of the [GNU General Public License][]. This program is free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the [GNU General Public
License][] as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 
warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details. GNU General Public License]: http://www.gnu.org/
licenses/gpl-2.0.html

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Settings page – Configure | Configured | Disconnect
 * [[
 * Available/Compatible Android Applications
 * [[
 * WordPress Users Management (Android Application)

## Installation

To use WordPress Mechanic, you will need:
 * an installed and configured copy of[
WordPress][]

    ```
    (version 3.0 or later).
    ```

* FTP, SFTP or shell access to your web host

#### New Installations

Method-A:

 1. Go to your wordpress admin “yoursite.com/wp-admin”
 2. Login and then access “yoursite.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php?tab=upload
 3. Upload and activate this plugin

4- That’s it, now see your dashboard and ask WordPress Mechanic anything

Method-B:

 1. Download the WordPress Mechanic installation package and extract the files on
 2. your computer.
 3. Create a new directory named `WordPress Mechanic` in the `wp-content/plugins`
 4. directory of your WordPress installation. Use an FTP or SFTP client to
 5. upload the contents of your WordPress Mechanic archive to the new directory
 6. that you just created on your web host.
 7. Log in to the WordPress Dashboard and activate the WordPress Mechanic plugin.
 8. Once the plugin is activated, WordPress Mechanic will be displayed on your dashboard.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Mechanic” is open source software. The following people have contributed to 
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Fahad Mahmood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fahadmahmood/)
 *   [ sahmed1035 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sahmed1035/)
 *   [ Invoicepress ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/invoicepress/)

[Translate “WP Mechanic” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-mechanic)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-mechanic/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-mechanic/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-mechanic/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-mechanic/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.6.7

 * Updated for WP 5.8.

#### 1.6.6

 * WP Docs Android App added.

#### 1.6.5

 * Two new apps added.

#### 1.6.4

 * PHP Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, boolean given–
   fixed.

#### 1.6.4

 * Releasing with four Android Applications including “WordPress Acrobatics”.

#### 1.6.3

 * Releasing with first Android Application “WordPress Users”.

#### 1.6.2

 * Sanitized input and fixed direct file access issues.

#### 1.6.1

 * Database cleanup option refined.

#### 1.6.0

 * Database cleanup option added.

#### 1.5.0

 * Deprecated Functions search added.

#### 1.4

 * A few new features are added.

#### 1.3.1

 * Updated with respect to WordPress Jimmy Smith and beyond.

#### 1.3

 * Developers toolkit and settings page added.

#### 1.2.5

 * PHP Version related error fixed.

#### 1.2.4

 * Weekly updates the mechanic info instead of on every onload.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.6.9**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.6.5**
 * Tag
 * [WooCommerce customers](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/woocommerce-customers/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mechanic/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  1 5-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-mechanic/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-mechanic/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-mechanic/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Fahad Mahmood ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fahadmahmood/)
 *   [ sahmed1035 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sahmed1035/)
 *   [ Invoicepress ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/invoicepress/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-mechanic/)