Plugin info

Total downloads: 28,121
Active installs: 1,000
Total reviews: 6
Average rating: 3.7
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 11/28/2025 (33 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 9/13/2013 (12 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.6
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.9.0
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Actively maintained • Last updated 33 days ago • 6 reviews

61/100

Is WP Site Verification tool abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 33 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.6
Tested up to: 6.9.0
Requires PHP: f

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Description

This is a simple tool that helps you provide the site verification code and file generator for any service that needs to verify the site
via a comment / meta in the head section or via a file URL.

This is a generic site certification tool.
To use it, just add the plug-in and turn it on as needed.
You will no longer need to FTP a file to the site root or add extra tags to the header.php in the template to enable your site to be verified by third-party services.

Some examples:
Google webmaster tool needs a file called googleXXXXXXXXXXXXX.html with no contents.
OR
in the HTML head,
Without this plugin, you would have to create a file and FTP it to your server or edit your template. With the plugin, you can generate the verification method needed automatically via the control panel.

Similarly, Trustwave SSL wants a file called cert.html with the contents of
“Trustwave SSL Validation Page”

Installation

  1. Upload the wp-site-verification-tool folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. The tool is found in tools => Site Verification

Frequently Asked Questions

Pull requests

I will look at all pull requests. Please submit them here: https://github.com/pbearne/wp-site-verification-tool

Review feed

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Screenshots

  1. Control panel set for a file

    Control panel set for a file

  2. The output if in file mode

    The output if in file mode

  3. Control pannel set in head mode

    Control pannel set in head mode

  4. An example of a head meta tag

    An example of a head meta tag

Changelog

1.0.9

Versi0n bump

1.0.8

Versi0n bump

1.0.5

Readme update

1.0.4

Change the singleton to use self not static to support earlier PHP versions

1.0.1 to 1.0.3

Added translation POT
getting deploy script and assest to SVN from git

1.0.0

First version –
Thanks to Chris Ross for the code review