Best preflight plugins for WordPress
The most popular preflight plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Publishing Checklist leads with 200+ active installs, ahead of AlphaPrepress PDF Preflight (fewer than 10) and Filecheck (fewer than 10). All 3 plugins tagged “preflight” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 preflight plugins
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Publishing ChecklistThe most installed preflight plugin, with 200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 2.
AlphaPrepress PDF PreflightFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 months ago.
- 3.
FilecheckFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
All 3 plugins tagged “preflight”
Publishing Checklist
Down in the last 7 days:239#11,740by Daniel Bachhuber11 years ago
Pre-flight your posts.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
AlphaPrepress PDF Preflight
Down in the last 7 days:2,755#70,957by alphaprepress3 months ago
Upload and preflight PDF print artwork. Generate detailed reports, processing history, batch analysis, PDF and CSV exports, email notifications, and W …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Filecheck
#74,355by Print.App ApS1 month ago
Preflight artwork validation for WooCommerce. Gates "Add to Cart" until the customer uploads a print-ready file that passes your rules.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day