Using Paul Bunyan
Install it, find your first problem, and learn what each screen and setting does.
Getting started
- Install Paul Bunyan and find your first problem
Install Paul Bunyan from WordPress.org, let your site run for a few minutes, then open Fix first. No code changes and no server extension.
- How Paul Bunyan works
What Paul Bunyan records on each request, how it times hooks without slowing them down, and where it keeps the results.
- How to read a finding
A finding on Fix first tells you where to look, not what to blame. How to read its code, its file and line, and its times, and how…
Screens, settings and data
- A tour of the Paul Bunyan screens
What each Paul Bunyan screen shows and when to use it, from Fix first to Your data, grouped the way the side menu groups them.
- Settings reference
Every Paul Bunyan setting, its default, and when to change it.
- Your data and privacy
What Paul Bunyan stores, what it strips out, who can see it, how to take a copy or delete it, and the only ways anything leaves your site.
- Turn recording on and off
The Paul Bunyan switch: on, off, on for a set time, or on for your browser only. Plus the wp-config.php off switch and the safety switch that turns…
- The AI report and AI assistants
Paste Paul Bunyan's AI report into any AI assistant, let AI tools read your findings through WordPress abilities, or use Ask AI in Professional with the AI service…
- Get support, and give support access safely
The Get support screen in Paul Bunyan: copy your support details into a ticket, and give support a temporary sign-in link instead of a password. How the link…