About Axle
Free plugins for the moments WordPress sites break, made and looked after by one person.
Hi, I am Aryan.
I lead engineering on large WordPress sites. The same few moments break them: a migration where someone’s work goes missing, a staging copy that emails customers, an update that takes down checkout, an edit nobody can undo.
Axle is the set of plugins I want on every one of those sites. Each one does one job, and each one gives you a way back. They are all free and open source, with no pro version.
Aryan Jasala
What you can count on
Free, for good
GPL, no pro version and no upsells. Nothing is held back for a paid tier.
No tracking
The plugins do not send anything from your site to us. What they store stays in your database.
Tested like infrastructure
Unit tests on every PHP version from 7.4 to 8.4, browser tests on the oldest and newest WordPress, and accessibility checks on every change.
Feels like WordPress
Every screen uses WordPress’s own styles and your admin colour scheme, so it looks like part of wp-admin.