WordPress/plugin-check

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A repository for the new Plugin Check plugin from the WordPress Performance and Plugins Team.

Stars: 362
Forks: 126
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 64
Avg merge: 1d 23h
Merged PRs (30d): 22

Dominant language: PHP
License: GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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64 open issues indexed

Question about a PCP Warning Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1475 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Custom/Private Plugins not in the Wordpress Repository Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1474 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 14, 2026
Runtime checks return HTTP 400 / body 0 while admin UI reports no errors Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1445 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 18, 2026
Add an advisory check for public exports of restricted post content Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1427 · Opened Aug 1, 2026
Plugin Namer tool doesn't detect exact/near-exact existing plugin names in the directory Open

[Team] Plugins Checks Good First Issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1386 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 8, 2026
False positive: WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.file_system_operations_fopen for php://output CSV streaming Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1377 · Opened Jun 27, 2026
Integrate Plugin Check Namer into Plugin Check AI Analysis Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1370 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 21, 2026
False positive `missing_direct_file_access_protection` for class files containing `require_once` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1361 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Warn when editor-only block assets are enqueued via enqueue_block_assets Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1360 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2026
Enhancement: Add a check to warn about React 19 incompatibilities / bundled outdated React Open

WordPress/plugin-check#1356 · 5 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 12, 2026
Some more false positive examples Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1350 · Opened Jun 7, 2026
Proposal: Add “Collapse” and “Expand” Controls to Results Page Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1334 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 30, 2026
Reduce false positives: incorrect warning about $wpdb->prepare Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1333 · Opened May 29, 2026
Unclosed `ob_start()` usage Open

[Team] Plugins Checks

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1314 · 1 reaction · Opened May 24, 2026
Add Trialware Check Open

[Team] Plugins Checks

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1313 · Opened May 24, 2026
Plugin check warning report should not Include global variable warning for a variable defined inside loop. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1311 · 1 comment · Opened May 19, 2026
Add check: runtime fatal-error prevention in PHP plugin code Open

Checks

WordPress/plugin-check#1273 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 22, 2026
Add check for changing error reporting configuration in plugin code Open

Checks

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1272 · Opened Apr 22, 2026
Action hooks for runtime environment setup / teardown Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1269 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Privacy: Add check for wp_privacy_personal_data_erasers filter (GDPR personal data erasure) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1252 · Opened Apr 6, 2026
Privacy: Add check for wp_privacy_personal_data_exporters filter (GDPR personal data export) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1251 · Opened Apr 6, 2026
Privacy: Check that plugins handling personal data call wp_add_privacy_policy_content() Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1249 · Opened Apr 5, 2026
Proposal: Support settings file e.g. .pcprc.json Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1210 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 11, 2026
Support file/directory exclusion in Admin UI Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1159 · Opened Jan 19, 2026
Proposal: Add Feature To Ignore Specific Checks Using Comments Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1154 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 14, 2026
Yoast Indexables Table Errors During Runtime Environment Setup Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1127 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 9, 2025
Enhancement: Add CLI options to check specific files and directories Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1108 · Opened Nov 21, 2025
False positives flagged about hook names not starting with the theme/plugin prefix Open

Needs Discussion

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1099 · 17 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 10, 2025
Implement missing textdomain argument sniff Open

[Team] Plugins

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1020 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Include specific checks for plugins that declare Multisite compatibility Open

[Team] Plugins

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/plugin-check#1010 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 28, 2025
library_core_files should check more than just the file name Open

[Team] Plugins

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/plugin-check#988 · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Non-line specific issues should output line 1 instead of 0 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

WordPress/plugin-check#983 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Reported file paths should be either absolute or relative from ABSPATH Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#982 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2025
trademark check should allow "for" anywhere not only at end Open

[Team] Plugins

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/plugin-check#977 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 26, 2025
PHP fatal undefined constant Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/plugin-check#975 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2025
Ruleset should be made available for plugins to reference Open

[Team] Plugins

WordPress/plugin-check#966 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 10, 2025
Security Plugin Score and Stats Open

Needs Discussion

WordPress/plugin-check#920 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 27, 2025
Add filter to customize PHPCS nonce check config Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#901 · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 31, 2025
Plugin "Check it!" button fails silently with nonce error Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

WordPress/plugin-check#893 · 4 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 13, 2025
Don't error on goto Open

[Team] Plugins

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

WordPress/plugin-check#847 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 3, 2025
Implement exclusion of rules for the check results Open

[Type] Enhancement Infrastructure

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/plugin-check#823 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 9, 2024
Runtime checks that simulate frontend request not reliable in AJAX based workflow Open

[Team] Performance [Type] Bug Checks WP Admin

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/plugin-check#750 · Opened Oct 25, 2024
Single file plugin text domain check yields mixed and incorrect expected strings Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WordPress/plugin-check#745 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 24, 2024
Check: Owner of plugin in WordPress submission Open

[Team] Plugins Infrastructure

WordPress/plugin-check#676 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 27, 2024
Add end-to-end (e2e) tests Open

[Type] Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

WordPress/plugin-check#607 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2024
Documentation of PCP check process flows in all scenarios Open

[Type] Documentation [Type] Overview

WordPress/plugin-check#597 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 30, 2024
CLI: `object-cache.php` drop-in prevents extension usage Open

[Type] Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/plugin-check#555 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2024
Evaluate using proper loopback requests for runtime checks Open

[Type] Enhancement Checks

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/plugin-check#526 · Opened Jul 15, 2024
Check: README Third parties MUST have privacy notes in the readme Open

[Team] Plugins Checks

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WordPress/plugin-check#475 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 21, 2024
Group check results by filename in admin Open

[Type] Enhancement WP Admin

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

WordPress/plugin-check#456 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2024

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