Description
Katze Site Preflight adds a compact widget to the WordPress dashboard that checks common pre-launch conditions and shows an at-a-glance readiness score.
Each check is weighted and contributes to an overall score out of 100:
- ✅ 100 — Ready to launch
- ⚠️ 80–99 — Ready to launch if no issues
- ⚠️ 60–79 — Please review before launch
- ❌ 0–59 — Must fix before launch
Individual checks cover:
- Search engine visibility setting
- Site icon
- SSL (HTTPS)
- Tagline still set to the WordPress default
- Sample page, “Hello world!” post, and sample comments
- Pending comments awaiting moderation
WP_DEBUGenabled in production- Published posts or pages with multibyte (e.g. Japanese) slugs, when the permalink structure includes the post name
- Published posts still using the “Uncategorized” category
The plugin is read-only — it never changes any site settings or content.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/katze-site-preflightdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen. - Activate the plugin through the
Pluginsscreen in WordPress. - Open the dashboard to view the
Katze Site Preflightwidget.
FAQ
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Does this change any site settings?
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No. The plugin only reads WordPress settings and content state, then shows the results in the dashboard.
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Does this only work with a specific theme?
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No. It is designed to work independently from themes.
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Can I add my own checks?
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Yes. Use the
ksp_site_preflight_checksfilter to add, remove, or modify checks. Each check is an associative array withstatus(pass,warn, orerror),message, and optionalfix(URL) anditems(array of strings) keys. -
Can I change the score weights?
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Yes. Use the
ksp_site_preflight_weightsfilter to adjust the weight of each check. The array is keyed by check ID (e.g.ssl,search_visibility,wp_debug) with integer values. Higher values make a check count more toward the final score. -
Has this been tested on PHP 7.4?
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Yes. The plugin was linted with
php:7.4-cliand also activated successfully on a WordPress environment running PHP 7.4.
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Contributors & Developers
“Katze Site Preflight” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
0.1.0
- Initial release.