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3-D Secure Payment Gateway by CardinalCommerce

3-D Secure Payment Gateway by CardinalCommerce has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

20+

Rating

5.0★

wp.org · 2 reviews

Downloads / 30d

45

Momentum

-39% low volume

Small base

Against 1685 tracked Payments plugins: health 45 vs 68 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.1★ vs 3.7★.

What we found

1 critical 1 to fix 1 opportunity 2 market context 1 strengths
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Likely abandoned

Critical

No update in 94 months. wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users avoid them.

What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.

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Readme fails 3 of 8 AI readiness checks

Needs work

AI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: has a faq, faq asks real questions and names who it is for. Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.

What to do: Rewrite the readme so each failed check passes: say the job in the first line, answer real questions in the FAQ, name who it is for and what it works with, and use headings and lists. For the same check on your plugin's own website, run the free AI visibility scan from AgentVania.

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Review volume is thin

Opportunity

Only 2 ratings. A handful of reviews makes your star average fragile and weakens trust at install time.

What to do: Run a structured in-plugin review prompt and a review campaign.

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Small download base. 45 downloads in 30 days, so a -39% move is a few installs rather than a trend.

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Light support activity. Few recent support threads, so there is no backlog to report.

✓

No open vulnerabilities recorded. No unpatched security advisory is recorded against this plugin.

Downloads, last 2 years

From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.

02 Nov 2026

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