Title: Launch Check
Author: Cullen Whitmore
Published: <strong>February 13, 2014</strong>
Last modified: March 15, 2015

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![](https://ps.w.org/launch-check/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=856929)

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://ps.w.org/launch-check/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=974978)

# Launch Check

 By [Cullen Whitmore](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cwhitmore/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/launch-check.1.2.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/launch-check/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/launch-check/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/launch-check/#installation)
 * [Development](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/launch-check/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/launch-check/)

## Description

Launch Check is a WordPress plugin that ensures you have made your site visible 
to search engines, changed the default description, added Google Analytics and installed
BruteProtect before launch.

Activate it when you are ready to launch your site and it will alert you if you 
need to make your site public, change the tagline, add the Google Analytics tracking
snippet or setup BruteProtect to protect your site against botnets.

## Installation

 1. Upload the `launch-check` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Do a happy dance.

## FAQ

None so far…

If you have any problems or want to make a feature request please submit an [issue](https://github.com/matchboxdesigngroup/launch-check/issues)
on GitHub.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Launch Check” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Cullen Whitmore ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cwhitmore/)
 *   [ matchboxdesigngroup ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matchboxdesigngroup/)
 *   [ dholloran ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dholloran/)

[Translate “Launch Check” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/launch-check)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/launch-check/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/launch-check/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/launch-check/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/launch-check/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.2

 * Added support for [BruteProtect](https://github.com/matchboxdesigngroup/launch-check/issues)
   so that you can protect your site from jerks that want to break in.
 * Added ability to dismiss warnings
 * Added fancy new icon for WordPress 4.0
 * Squashed some bugs and polished some code

#### 1.1

 * Updated plugin to use new [Universal Analytics](https://github.com/matchboxdesigngroup/launch-check/issues)
   plugin. A simple way to add Google Analytics to your site
 * Updated alerts so that they don’t show on plugin details and update pages

#### 1.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.2.0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/launch-check/)
 * Tags
 * [checklist](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/checklist/)[pre-launch](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pre-launch/)
   [seo](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://ewe.wordpress.org/plugins/launch-check/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Cullen Whitmore ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cwhitmore/)
 *   [ matchboxdesigngroup ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matchboxdesigngroup/)
 *   [ dholloran ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dholloran/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/launch-check/)