Wiretrail Connection Manager

Every plugin and theme on your site can quietly call out to third-party services: email marketing, shipping, analytics, licensing servers, and more. Wiretrail Connection Manager shows you what is actually happening.

• Detected connections: every outbound service your site talks to, grouped by the plugin or theme that made the request.
• Health: request counts, error rates, and average latency per connection, with an alert when a service keeps failing.
• Personal data checks: flags requests that contain email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, card numbers, or similar data, and alerts you when that data goes to a service that is not recognised or not expected to receive it.
• Settings > Connectors: on WordPress 7.0 and later, detected connections also appear on the Connectors screen, marked as "Detected" so they are not confused with connections you set up yourself.
• AI agent access: on WordPress 6.9 and later, issues, connections, and recent requests are available as read-only Abilities, so an AI assistant connected to your site can tell you what needs attention.

Wiretrail Connection Manager only observes. It never blocks, changes, delays, or re-sends a request. Privacy Wiretrail Connection Manager does not send any data off your site and does not contact any external service. For each outbound request it stores the destination host, the URL (with secrets and personal data redacted), the HTTP method, response status and size, timing, and which plugin or theme made the request. Request bodies are scanned in memory for personal data, but only the type of data found is stored. Request and response bodies are never stored. Records are kept in your site's database and deleted automatically after the retention period you choose (7 days by default). You can delete all records at any time from Tools > Connections > Settings. Deleting the plugin removes its tables and options. Requests to WordPress.org, to your own site, and to the Stripe, PayPal, and Braintree payment gateways are not recorded.

0.2.2

• Renamed to Wiretrail Connection Manager (slug wiretrail-connection-manager). Abilities are now wiretrail/get-issues, wiretrail/list-connections, and wiretrail/get-recent-requests.
• Documented that the plugin uses no external services.

0.2.1

• Connections averaging 2 seconds or more are marked "slow" in the Health column.
• Fix: requests to wordpress.org itself (the dashboard news feed) are no longer recorded.

0.2.0

• New: read-only Abilities (get-issues, list-connections, get-recent-requests) so AI agents can report connection problems. WordPress 6.9+.
• Fix: WordPress.com, Jetpack Stats, Jetpack Protect, and Akismet are recognised services, so Jetpack's own requests no longer raise "unrecognised host" alerts.

0.1.0

• First release: detected connections, health, personal data checks, and the Connectors screen integration.