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Track and analyze plugin quality issues across the ecosystem

Total Issues

8,986

Across 5 categories

Affected Plugins

18

With reported issues

Total Impact

4M

Active installations

Clear
SecuritySubmission BlockersDeprecationsDatabaseFilesystemHTTPI18nReadme
Issues by Category
Distribution across quality categories
35.8%
plugin_repo
3,216
issues
32.9%
Most Impactful Rules
Specific error and warning codes affecting the most installations
1
NonPrefixedHooknameFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedHooknameFound
466
issues
18
plugins
general
2,954
issues
28.3%
security
2,546
issues
1.7%
performance
156
issues
1.3%
uncategorized
114
issues
271K
impact
2
MissingTranslatorsComment
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingTranslatorsComment
360
issues
16
plugins
236K
impact
3
Discouraged
WARNINGuncategorized
Squiz.PHP.DiscouragedFunctions.Discouraged
21
issues
13
plugins
230K
impact
4
unlink_unlink
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.AlternativeFunctions.unlink_unlink
60
issues
12
plugins
220K
impact
5
DirectQuery
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.DirectQuery
53
issues
13
plugins
214K
impact
6
NoCaching
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.DB.DirectDatabaseQuery.NoCaching
47
issues
12
plugins
208K
impact
7
MissingArgDomain
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.MissingArgDomain
95
issues
13
plugins
199K
impact
8
NonPrefixedVariableFound
ERRORplugin_repo
WordPress.NamingConventions.PrefixAllGlobals.NonPrefixedVariableFound
2K
issues
18
plugins
195K
impact
9
TextDomainMismatch
WARNINGgeneral
WordPress.WP.I18n.TextDomainMismatch
2K
issues
12
plugins
193K
impact
10
load_plugin_textdomainFound
WARNINGplugin_repo
PluginCheck.CodeAnalysis.DiscouragedFunctions.load_plugin_textdomainFound
12
issues
10
plugins
189K
impact
11
OutputNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.OutputNotEscaped
2K
issues
18
plugins
185K
impact
12
Missing
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Missing
124
issues
16
plugins
177K
impact
13
InputNotValidated
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotValidated
113
issues
15
plugins
166K
impact
14
Wp_upload_bitsParam2Found
WARNINGplugin_repo
WordPress.WP.DeprecatedParameters.Wp_upload_bitsParam2Found
8
issues
8
plugins
165K
impact
15
ExceptionNotEscaped
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.EscapeOutput.ExceptionNotEscaped
18
issues
4
plugins
140K
impact
16
date_date
ERRORuncategorized
WordPress.DateTime.RestrictedFunctions.date_date
61
issues
12
plugins
139K
impact
17
MissingUnslash
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.MissingUnslash
130
issues
12
plugins
138K
impact
18
NotInFooter
WARNINGperformance
WordPress.WP.EnqueuedResourceParameters.NotInFooter
26
issues
12
plugins
133K
impact
19
InputNotSanitized
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.ValidatedSanitizedInput.InputNotSanitized
126
issues
11
plugins
128K
impact
20
Recommended
ERRORsecurity
WordPress.Security.NonceVerification.Recommended
110
issues
10
plugins
125K
impact