wp-perf-audit

A command for checking the source code of a WordPress plugin or theme for common performance problems. It performs a static audit, meaning it examines the code without running the site.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look for unbounded queries, repeated database calls, database work on every request, inefficient loops, and missing query optimisations.
Why use it?
It helps identify code that may make pages slow or place unnecessary load on the database.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/iwritec0de/wp-dev/wp-perf-audit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/iwritec0de/wp-dev
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 536 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00013 $0.00536
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00268
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00107
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00054

Measured yesterday against content hash 8728280adf1c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wp-perf-audit scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/wp-perf-audit.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/wp-perf-audit

Run a static performance audit on the current WordPress project.

Usage

/wp-perf-audit [path]

  • No argument: scans the entire project
  • With path: scans only the specified directory (e.g., /wp-perf-audit includes/)

Instructions

Load the wordpress-performance skill for optimization patterns and anti-patterns.

Delegate the audit to the wp-perf-analyzer agent by using the Task tool with the following prompt:

"Perform a comprehensive WordPress performance audit on the current project{path_scope}. Scan all PHP files and check for:

  1. Unbounded queriesposts_per_page => -1, missing LIMIT in raw SQL
  2. N+1 query patternsget_post_meta()/get_option() inside loops without cache priming
  3. Queries on every request — database calls in init/plugins_loaded without conditional guards
  4. Batch operation gaps — individual $wpdb->insert()/update() in loops
  5. Missing no_found_rowsWP_Query without no_found_rows => true when no pagination is used
  6. Unnecessary cache primingfields => 'ids' queries that still prime meta/term caches
  7. Repeated get_option() calls — same option fetched in multiple functions
  8. Autoload bloat — large data stored with autoload enabled
  9. Uncached external HTTPwp_remote_get() without transient caching
  10. Heavy init hooks — expensive operations on early-firing hooks
  11. Leading wildcard LIKELIKE '%term' in SQL queries
  12. Admin asset loading — scripts/styles enqueued on all admin pages

Output a structured report with:

  • Severity levels: CRITICAL, WARNING, INFO
  • File path and line number for each finding
  • Impact description
  • Suggested fix with code snippet
  • Summary statistics and estimated query reduction
  • Prioritized recommendations

Sort findings by severity (CRITICAL first)."

Replace {path_scope} with the user's path argument if provided (e.g., " within the includes/ directory"), or remove it if no argument was given.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 51 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 8728280adf1c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wp-perf-audit is a command published in the GitHub repository iwritec0de/wp-dev (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 536 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.