Frontend diagnostics for real WordPress pages
Find the frontend problem. See what caused it.
KineticHub Frontend Doctor scans the page you are looking at and helps explain difficult frontend problems — horizontal overflow, broken sticky behavior, blocked clicks, floating UI collisions and anchor links that land in the wrong place.
Frontend debugging gets messy fast
Stop guessing which element is actually causing the problem.
A page can look simple while the browser is dealing with scroll containers, stacking contexts, fixed elements, invisible blockers and competing UI. Frontend Doctor turns those relationships into findings you can inspect.
Something causes horizontal scroll
But which element actually contributes to the page width — and on which side?
A sticky element refuses to stick
A parent or scroll environment may be changing what the browser is allowed to do.
A button looks clickable but is not
Another rendered element may actually be receiving the pointer interaction.
Floating controls fight for the same space
Chat, back-to-top and other fixed UI can collide even when each works alone.
An anchor link lands under a header
The URL is correct, but the content the visitor wanted is hidden from view.
One diagnostic workflow
Detect. Explain. Highlight.
Frontend Doctor does more than tell you that something looks suspicious. It records browser evidence, explains the finding and lets you reveal the elements involved directly on the page.
Detect
Scan the current frontend state using what the browser has actually rendered.
Explain
See plain-language guidance plus selectors, measurements and technical evidence.
Highlight
Use Show Elements to draw the elements and relationships involved on the actual page.
Five focused diagnostic modules
Each Doctor answers a different frontend question.
The modules stay separate so the result tells you what kind of problem was measured instead of dumping unrelated warnings into one generic report.
Why can this page scroll sideways?
Detect real horizontal page overflow and identify elements contributing to the viewport width, including direction and measured overhang.
Why is this sticky element not behaving?
Inspect sticky positioning, axis configuration and ancestor scroll constraints that change the sticky environment.
Why can’t this control be clicked?
Identify expected interactive controls that are covered by another rendered element receiving the interaction instead.
Which floating controls are colliding?
Inspect rendered floating interface components such as chat launchers and back-to-top controls when they overlap each other.
Why did this in-page link land in the wrong place?
Inspect real native fragment navigation and determine when the destination has landed beneath other page content such as a fixed header.
Show Elements
Turn a finding into something you can see.
A selector in a report is useful. Seeing the exact element — together with the blocker, container or competing control involved — is faster.
- Highlights the finding on the current page
- Shows related elements where the diagnosis needs them
- Keeps the page content itself untouched
- Toggle the visualization off when you are finished
- Rule
- click.blocked
- Target
- #subscribe
- Covered by
- .cta-glow
- Confidence
- Confirmed
Technical Details
Enough evidence to keep debugging moving.
Open the technical view when you need more than the plain-language explanation. Findings can expose the relevant selectors, CSS conditions and measurements behind the diagnosis.
Use Copy Details to move the finding into a support ticket, client note or development conversation without manually reconstructing what you saw.
Designed for diagnostic honesty
Evidence first. Confidence second. Guessing last.
A debugging tool is only useful when you can trust what it says. Frontend Doctor is deliberately conservative about conclusions it cannot prove.
Browser-backed
Findings are based on the rendered page and browser-observable state, not a static guess from markup alone.
Focused rules
Each Doctor owns a defined problem family so unrelated symptoms are not casually merged together.
Confidence matters
The scanner distinguishes what it can establish from situations that do not support a confident diagnosis.
No automatic repair
Frontend Doctor diagnoses and explains. It does not silently rewrite your CSS or change page behavior.
Built for the frontend you already have
A diagnostic tool shouldn’t become another frontend problem.
Frontend Doctor keeps its normal frontend footprint focused on the admin-bar launcher. The diagnostic runtime is loaded when an authorized user actually asks to scan the page.
Try before you install
Diagnose five deliberate frontend problems in the Live Playground.
The Diagnostic Lab runs the real Frontend Doctor plugin on a temporary WordPress site containing one controlled problem for each Doctor.
Frontend Doctor Diagnostic Lab
This page intentionally contains five frontend problems.
Useful when the browser knows more than the screenshot
Built for people who troubleshoot WordPress frontends.
WordPress developers
Move from symptom to relevant DOM/CSS evidence without starting every investigation from scratch.
Freelancers & agencies
Investigate unfamiliar client themes, plugins and page-builder layouts with a repeatable workflow.
Site builders
Get a clearer explanation when a visual setting produces behavior that is hard to trace in the editor.
Support & maintenance
Copy technical findings into tickets or hand them to the person responsible for the actual fix.
Simple setup
Install. Open the problem page. Scan.
Install Frontend Doctor
Install and activate the free plugin on your WordPress site.
Open the frontend page
While logged in as an administrator, navigate to the page you want to investigate.
Scan This Page
Use the WordPress admin-bar launcher and let all five Doctors inspect the current state.
Inspect the evidence
Read the explanation, open Technical Details, Show Elements or copy the finding.
FAQ
Straight answers.
What Frontend Doctor does, what it does not do, and how it fits into a debugging workflow.
Is KineticHub Frontend Doctor free?
Yes. Frontend Doctor 1.0.0 is a free WordPress frontend diagnostics plugin.
Does Frontend Doctor automatically fix problems?
No. Version 1.0.0 is intentionally diagnostic. It detects, explains and highlights supported problems but does not rewrite your CSS or automatically change the page.
What problems can it diagnose?
The initial release includes Viewport Doctor, Sticky Doctor, Click Doctor, Floating UI Inspector and Anchor Doctor.
Can it identify the element causing horizontal overflow?
Viewport Doctor can diagnose supported horizontal viewport overflow conditions and provide evidence about elements contributing to the problem.
Can it tell me why position: sticky is not working?
Sticky Doctor inspects supported sticky-positioning problems, including relevant ancestor and scroll-container conditions.
Does it test whether buttons can actually be clicked?
Click Doctor can identify supported cases where an expected interactive control is blocked because another rendered element receives the interaction.
Does the plugin scan the whole website?
No. Frontend Doctor 1.0.0 diagnoses the current rendered page and its current browser state. It is not a site crawler.
Does it track visitors?
No. Frontend Doctor does not include frontend visitor analytics or telemetry.
Can I try it without installing it?
Yes. The Frontend Doctor Diagnostic Lab runs in WordPress Playground so you can scan a temporary demo site containing controlled frontend problems.
KineticHub Frontend Doctor
When the frontend feels wrong, get evidence before changing code.
Five focused Doctors. One scan. Clearer frontend debugging for WordPress.