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WP Site Verification tool

A tool to enable verification of site ownership via file or meta tag.

By Paul Bearne·Vip·Free
3.7(6 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 4 months ago
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As of April 2026, WP Site Verification tool is a WordPress vip plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 3.7/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 28K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Downloads are up 8% this week. Top alternative: Init User Engine – Gamified, Fast….

3.7/56 reviews
1.0K+active installs
28K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013

Overview

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
<meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” /> in the HTML head,
Without this plugin, you would have to create a file and FTP it to your server or edit your template.…

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Ratings & Reviews

3.76 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Just one verification
by 3WT·9 years ago

Weak plugin. It allows you to do just one verification.

  • This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by 3WT.
Excellent! This was the only plugin (I have tested two others) that worked!
by toma-tomsk·9 years ago

After long unsucessfull attempts to add meta for yandex and pinterest I was happy to find this plugin which has a very light interface and works great!
Thank you!
Tamara

Very well!
by Erida·11 years ago

Thank you for the plugin, as for me, it’s really the best one for verification! And I have an improvement idea: I’d like to add not one but 2 and more files in case if I need to verify 2 and more services at the same site (i.e. Google and Trustwave). And Google can be veryfied by file but Trustwave by meta tag 🙂

simple and works
by Paul Bearne·12 years ago

It does what it says on the tin and nothing else

wp google site verification plugin
by julitasoup·12 years ago·1 reply

I attempted to install this plugin multiple times and was hopeful that it would function properly; it is the only one I found on search that did what I needed it to do and had a very recent update only 3 weeks ago.
Unfortunately, each time I tried to install, it returned a fatal error. I clear my browser cache, tried it in different browsers, all to no avail.
I am disappointed and hope it gets fixed as it looked to be a very useful plugin. As it is now, it is completely useless.

Download Trends

Today: 8Yesterday: 5This week: 40Period total: 2K

Compatibility

WordPress3.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.0
PHPfalse+ required

Version Adoption

v1.0
100.0%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

1.0.9

Versi0n bump

View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

Paul BearnePaul Bearne
Plugin Info
Version
1.0.9
Last Updated
Nov 28, 2025
WP Requires
3.6+
Tested Up To
6.9.0
PHP Requires
false+
Active Installs
1.0K+
Downloads
28K+
Added
Sep 13, 2013
Business
Free

Tags

viptoolwebmastercertificationsite verification

Developer

P
Paul Bearne
6 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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