Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts – Better Notifications for WP

Supercharge your WordPress email notifications using a WYSIWYG editor and shortcodes. Default and new notifications available. Add-ons available.

v1.9.9.1Jack - BNFWUpdated Added 30k+ installs96% rating0% support resolved
37
Score
64
Errors
47
Warnings
+0
Change

Category Scores

Security0
Repo94
Performance100
Maintainability66

Issues to Review

Prioritized issue groups from the latest Plugin Check scan

111 findings

Maintainability

42

11 issue groups

Security

38

7 issue groups

I18n

30

4 issue groups

Repo Compliance

1

1 issue group

ERRORI18nMissing Arg DomainMissing $domain parameter in function call to __().17
Category
I18n
Occurrences
17
Severity
error

Sample message

Missing $domain parameter in function call to __().

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Hookname FoundHook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "edd_sl_api_request_verify_ssl".14
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
14
Severity
warning

Sample message

Hook names invoked by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "edd_sl_api_request_verify_ssl".

ERRORI18nText Domain MismatchMismatched text domain. Expected 'bnfw' but got 'easy-digital-downloads'.11
Category
I18n
Occurrences
11
Severity
error

Sample message

Mismatched text domain. Expected 'bnfw' but got 'easy-digital-downloads'.

ERRORSecurityOutput Not EscapedAll output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$file'.10
Category
Security
Occurrences
10
Severity
error

Sample message

All output should be run through an escaping function (see the Security sections in the WordPress Developer Handbooks), found '$file'.

ERRORSecurityregister setting MissingSanitization missing for register_setting().9
Category
Security
Occurrences
9
Severity
error

Sample message

Sanitization missing for register_setting().

ERRORMaintainabilitywp function not compatible with requires wpFunction "get_main_site_id()" requires WordPress 4.9.0, but your plugin minimum supported version is WordPress 4.8.0.8
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
8
Severity
error

Sample message

Function "get_main_site_id()" requires WordPress 4.9.0, but your plugin minimum supported version is WordPress 4.8.0.

WARNINGSecurityRecommendedProcessing form data without nonce verification.7
Category
Security
Occurrences
7
Severity
warning

Sample message

Processing form data without nonce verification.

WARNINGSecurityMissing Unslash$_GET['bnfw_action'] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar6
Category
Security
Occurrences
6
Severity
warning

Sample message

$_GET['bnfw_action'] not unslashed before sanitization. Use wp_unslash() or similar

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Variable FoundGlobal variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$edd_plugin_data".4
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
4
Severity
warning

Sample message

Global variables defined by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "$edd_plugin_data".

WARNINGSecurityInput Not SanitizedDetected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_GET['bnfw_action']4
Category
Security
Occurrences
4
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of a non-sanitized input variable: $_GET['bnfw_action']

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ERRORMaintainabilitymissing direct file access protection4
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
4
Severity
error

Sample message

PHP file should prevent direct access. Add a check like: if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) exit;

WARNINGMaintainabilityslow db query meta query2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of meta_query, possible slow query.

WARNINGMaintainabilityNon Prefixed Class Found2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

Classes declared by a theme/plugin should start with the theme/plugin prefix. Found: "EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater".

ERRORMaintainabilityplugin updater detected2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
error

Sample message

Plugin Updater detected. These are not permitted in WordPress.org hosted plugins. Detected: class EDD_SL_Plugin_Updater

WARNINGMaintainabilitytrademarked term2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

The plugin name includes a restricted term. Your chosen plugin name - "Better Notifications for WP" - contains the restricted term "wp" which cannot be used at all in your plugin name.

WARNINGMaintainabilityupdate modification detected2
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
2
Severity
warning

Sample message

Plugin Updater detected. Detected code which may be altering WordPress update routines. Detected: _site_transient_update_plugins

WARNINGI18nload plugin textdomain Found1
Category
I18n
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

load_plugin_textdomain() has been discouraged since WordPress version 4.6. When your plugin is hosted on WordPress.org, you no longer need to manually include this function call for translations under your plugin slug. WordPress will automatically load the translations for you as needed.

WARNINGSecurityUnescaped DBParameter1
Category
Security
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Unescaped parameter $query used in $wpdb->get_var()\n$query assigned unsafely at line 1772.

WARNINGSecurityInput Not Validated1
Category
Security
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Detected usage of a possibly undefined superglobal array index: $_GET['query']. Check that the array index exists before using it.

ERRORMaintainabilityparse url parse url1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

parse_url() is discouraged because of inconsistency in the output across PHP versions; use wp_parse_url() instead.

ERRORI18nMissing Translators Comment1
Category
I18n
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

A function call to __() with texts containing placeholders was found, but was not accompanied by a "translators:" comment on the line above to clarify the meaning of the placeholders.

WARNINGMaintainabilitymismatched plugin name1
Category
Maintainability
Occurrences
1
Severity
warning

Sample message

Plugin name "Customize WordPress Emails and Alerts - Better Notifications for WP" is different from the name declared in plugin header "Better Notifications for WP".

ERRORRepo Complianceoutdated tested upto header1
Category
Repo Compliance
Occurrences
1
Severity
error

Sample message

Tested up to: 6.8 < 7.0. The "Tested up to" value in your plugin is not set to the current version of WordPress. This means your plugin will not show up in searches, as we require plugins to be compatible and documented as tested up to the most recent version of WordPress.

Score History

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v1.9.9.1

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111
Errors
64
Warnings
47
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