by WordPress.org 4.5 (36 reviews)

Plugin Check (PCP)

Name: Plugin Check (PCP)
Rating: 4.5 (36 reviews)
Author: WordPress.org

Plugin Check is a WordPress.org tool which provides checks to help plugins meet the directory requirements and follow various best practices.

Plugin Check (PCP) ranks #1,978 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #250 of 8,549 in the Customization category, a 4.5/5 rating from 36 reviews, and was last updated Aug 16, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7 (Current: 7.1)

v2.1.0 Current Version v2.1.0

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 16 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 12 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#250 of 8,549 in Customization Top 5% by installs Downloads -13.6% this week

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#1,978

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Active Installs

10K+

-17.6%

KW Avg Position

1.5 better

Downloads

742.1K

+1,704 today

Support Resolved

— No change

Rating

90%

Review 4.5 out of 5

4.5 (36 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 30.5%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.5

36 reviews

Overall 90%

29 (81%)

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2 (6%)

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Dec 6, 2024

Plugin Check (PCP) [plugin-check] < 1.3.1

Fixed in v1.3.1

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.1.0
Last Updated: Aug 16, 2026
Requires WP: 6.3+
Tested Up To: 7
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: WordPress.org

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5
Reviews: 36
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Plugin Check is for WordPress plugin developers preparing to submit or maintain plugins for the WordPress.org directory. It runs automated checks against directory requirements and development best practices, covering areas like internationalization, accessibility, performance, and security.

Checks via WP Admin interface
Checks via WP-CLI command
Runtime checks via cli.php require
Checks plugin from URL or path
Categorized check groups
AI-powered Plugin Namer tool
Checks plugin name similarity
AI review of check results

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Plugin Check (PCP)

All development for this plugin is handled via GitHub any issues or pull requests should be posted there.

We strive to write a plugin in a way that minimizes false positives but if you find one, please report it in the GitHub repo. For certain false positives, such as those detected by PHPCodeSniffer, you may be able to annotate the code to ignore the specific problem for a specific line.

It's not flagging "bad" things, as such. Plugin Check is designed to be a non-perfect way to test for compliance with the Plugin Review guidelines, as well as additional plugin development best practices in accessibility, performance, security and other areas. Not all plugins must adhere to these guidelines. The purpose of the checking tool is to ensure that plugins uploaded to the central WordPress.org plugin repository meet the latest standards of WordPress plugin and will work on a wide variety of sites. Many sites use custom plugins, and that's perfectly okay. But plugins that are intended for use on many different kinds of sites by the public need to have a certain minimum level of capabilities, in order to ensure proper functioning in many different environments. The Plugin Review guidelines are created with that goal in mind. This plugin checker is not perfect, and never will be. It is only a tool to help plugin authors, or anybody else who wants to make their plugin more capable. All plugins submitted to WordPress.org are hand-reviewed by a team of experts. The automated plugin checker is meant to be a useful tool only, not an absolute system of measurement.

To be approved in the WordPress.org plugin directory, a plugin must typically pass all checks in the "Plugin repo" category. Other checks are additional and may not be required to pass. In any case, passing the checks in this tool likely helps to achieve a smooth plugin review process, but is no guarantee that a plugin will be approved in the WordPress.org plugin directory.