Best testing plugins for WordPress
The most popular testing plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. FakerPress leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Plugin Check (PCP) (10K+) and WordPress Beta Tester (2K+). All 91 plugins tagged “testing” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.
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Top 10 testing plugins
- 1.FakerPress
The most installed testing plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 205 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 2.Plugin Check (PCP)
10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 36 reviews, updated 2 days ago.
- 3.
WordPress Beta Tester2K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 47 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
RTL Tester1K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 5.
Debug Bar Rewrite Rules700+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 6.Admin Bar Tools
300+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 8 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.6.0.
- 7.
Sandbox Payment Gateway for WooCommerce300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 8.Rewrite Rule Testing
300+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
- 9.Theme Preview
200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 10.
Woo Email Control200+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 5 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
All 91 plugins tagged “testing”
FakerPress
Down in the last 7 days:10#1,843by Gustavo Bordoni21 days ago
FakerPress is a clean way to generate fake and dummy content to your WordPress, great for developers who need testing
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(205)
- Downloads
- 214/day
Plugin Check (PCP)
Up in the last 7 days:8#1,848by WordPress.org2 days ago
Plugin Check is a WordPress.org tool which provides checks to help plugins meet the directory requirements and follow various best practices.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(36)
- Downloads
- 8.9K/day

WordPress Beta Tester
Down in the last 7 days:23#4,524by Andy Fragen2 months ago
Allows you to easily upgrade for testing the next versions of WordPress.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.0(47)
- Downloads
- 303/day

RTL Tester
Down in the last 7 days:14#5,758by Yoav Farhi6 years ago
Test your themes and plugins in RTL mode.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 75/day

Debug Bar Rewrite Rules
Down in the last 7 days:44#7,930by Oleg Butuzov2 years ago
Debug Bar Rewrite Rules adds a new panel to Debug Bar that displays information about WordPress Rewrites Rules (if used).
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Admin Bar Tools
Down in the last 7 days:71#10,580by Grégory Viguier5 years ago
Adds some small development tools to the admin bar.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.8(8)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Sandbox Payment Gateway for WooCommerce
Up in the last 7 days:61#10,851by webmonk7 months ago
Fake credit card and ACH/eCheck payment gateways for testing WooCommerce checkout flows.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Rewrite Rule Testing
Down in the last 7 days:1#10,891by Matthew Boynes12 years ago
Unit test your rewrite rules from the WordPress Admin.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 35/day
Theme Preview
Down in the last 7 days:68#11,526by Dougal Campbell10 years ago
Allows you test how a theme looks on your site without activating it.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Woo Email Control
Down in the last 7 days:83#11,922by findshorty10 years ago
Get better control of your Woocommerce emails. Add product images & embed them in emails. Test emails in your browser and via email.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.4(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Developer Debug Tools
Up in the last 7 days:46#13,510by PluginRx1 month ago
Lots of debugging and testing tools for developers.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Test Email Redirector
Down in the last 7 days:223#14,152by Zaib Makda1 year ago
Redirects all outgoing WordPress emails to a specified test address for development and testing purposes.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
User Role Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:50#15,671by Dhanendran Rajagopal4 months ago
Instant switching between user roles in WordPress.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day

Content Forge
Down in the last 7 days:197#19,719by sapayth13 days ago
Generate WordPress content with or without AI. Schedule AI posts via Autopilot, or instantly create dummy posts, users, comments, pages.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 22/day

FormStatus Form Monitoring
Down in the last 7 days:57#22,277by formstatus5 days ago
Fully-automated monitoring via FormStatus ensures you're the first to know when your webforms break.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 13/day

REST API Route Tester
Down in the last 7 days:380#22,455by Nowshad Jawad1 month ago
A WordPress admin tool to quickly test REST API routes, path params, headers, body payloads, and copy requests as cURL.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day

Diluted Test Order for WooCommerce
#23,701by Diluted7 months ago
Adds a fake payment method so you can test the full checkout flow without a real payment provider. Ideal for staging, QA and local development.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day

Structured Data Test Button
Down in the last 7 days:339#23,734by Jay Holtslander7 years ago
Adds a “Test Data” link in the admin bar (when viewing any page or post) which opens the current URL in Google's Structured Data Testing Tool.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
RTL Tester Mirror by WebMan
Up in the last 7 days:554#25,305by WebMan Design | Oliver Juhas11 months ago
Makes it easy for LTR language speaker to test the RTL website layout by mirroring it so it looks like LTR.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Shopwarden
Up in the last 7 days:424#26,535by shopwarden1 year ago
Make sure your WooCommerce store is fully operational. Shopwarden automatically monitors your store's uptime, important user flows and Wordpress …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Kelpiks FormProof
#26,800by Kelpiks Digital3 months ago
Audit Contact Form 7 configuration and run controlled email-path tests before a broken form costs you a lead.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Mailster Dummy Mailer
Up in the last 7 days:5,032#27,063by EverPress26 days ago
Simulate Mailster newsletter sending and campaign stats for development and testing—no real emails delivered.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 3/day

Coral
Down in the last 7 days:366#29,445by Big Sea9 years ago
Save space and download time! Leave your uploaded images where they're at, in /wp-content, during development on your local.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Remote Request Check
Down in the last 7 days:94#29,579by danstever12 years ago
Checks if the WordPress HTTP API is able to be used by making calls using wp_remote_request().
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Diffy Visual Regression Testing
Down in the last 7 days:678#31,475by Yuriy Gerasymov5 days ago
Screenshot your site before and after every plugin update and see exactly what changed. Visual regression testing by Diffy.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Quick Playground
Up in the last 7 days:154#32,035by davidfcarr2 months ago
Simplify creation of WordPress Playground test, staging, and demo sites. Specify the theme, plugins and content from the WP admin dashboard.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Ghost Inspector
#32,758by Ghost Inspector4 years ago
Display your latest Ghost Inspector test results for a single suite, on your dashboard. Ghost Inspector is a 3rd party service which allows you to bui …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
VK Plugin Beta Tester
#32,957by Vektor,Inc.5 years ago
VK Plugin Beta Tester is derived from "Plugin Beta Tester" WordPress Plugin, created by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) Copyright 2013.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

VizProof Timeline
Up in the last 7 days:30,482#34,622by Tommy Bordas18 days ago
Run VizProof scans from WordPress updates, review visual diffs in wp-admin, and automate recurring checks.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Development Assistant
#34,651by Dmitry Pripa28 days ago
Toolkit for debugging and customer support.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Mailtrap
Up in the last 7 days:11,361#36,057by Renato Alves11 years ago
WP Mailtrap is a simple plugin to test emails in WordPress with the Mailtrap API.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Stage WP Plugin Manager
Up in the last 7 days:9,963#36,272by Andrés Villarreal12 years ago
Gives you the option to determine which plugins must be automatically activated either on local, staging or productions stages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Test Monkey
Up in the last 7 days:5,457#36,480by Murray14 years ago
Set up multivariate tests on any post or page in just minutes to optimize your headlines, prices, calls to action and more.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Experience Builder
#37,224by Kresten Bergsøe5 years ago
Profile your visitors and transform your static site into a dynamic personalized experience.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Theme Mentor
Down in the last 7 days:1,629#39,590by Mario Peshev6 years ago
Theme Mentor is a cousin of the Theme-Check plugin getting deeper into the code analysis.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Flexible AB Results
Up in the last 7 days:4,986#42,092by Easy Development12 years ago
Flexible AB Testing is an easy to use plugin that will help you handle your A/B Testing in less than a few minutes.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Style Switcher
Down in the last 7 days:6,527#43,627by nextiteration8 years ago
Let clients test simple style changes on the front end, to help make final decisions.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

BrowserStack for WordPress
#44,507by browserstack7 years ago
Generate screenshots of your Wordpress page across multiple mobile and desktop browsers in a click.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AB testing with AB Tasty
Down in the last 7 days:9,010#45,823by remiaubert11 years ago
AB Tasty enables you to set up A/B tests and multivariate easily to optimize your conversion rate.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day

Easy Responsive Test
#46,388by osCitas Themes1 month ago
Preview your WordPress site at custom viewport sizes without resizing your browser window.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Missing Content
Up in the last 7 days:24#46,455by dholloran12 years ago
Allows you to add placeholder content quickly and easily to your site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

HDEV Dummy Blog Generator
Down in the last 7 days:9,605#46,544by Hendridev5 months ago
Generate dummy blog posts (with categories and featured images) for development and testing.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Back To The Theme
Down in the last 7 days:3,360#46,962by Mikael Korpela7 years ago
See a page with different themes all at once, just like that!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

Test Post Generator
Down in the last 7 days:1,132#46,985by Ian Sackofwits6 years ago
Easily generate test posts for your testing purposes. Generated posts are set to be "Private" by default.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
UP Globe
#47,101by UP Globe1 year ago
Real-device global website performance monitoring from 200+ countries.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WooFakePay
Down in the last 7 days:230#47,341by FranH13 years ago
Dummy payment gateway for developers. Simulates IPN. Always marks Order as paid.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

BF WPO Dequeuer
Down in the last 7 days:7,069#48,555by DarioBF6 years ago
Dequeue scripts and styles from your site's queue.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day

PhilDesigns Responsive Preview
#52,682by phildesigns2 months ago
Preview your WordPress site across device viewports and animated width walks — directly from the admin toolbar.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

"Safe WP Updates" by WP Boom
Up in the last 7 days:3,591#52,860by wpboom1 year ago
A site cloning and visual testing tool that allows creation of development sites for WordPress update testing.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day

OrderCraft for WooCommerce
#53,108by roshandalvi1 month ago
Generate realistic mock WooCommerce orders with random products, coupons, and shipping methods directly from the WordPress Admin Bar.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day