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Plugin audit

Direct Payments WP

Direct Payments WP has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

50+

Rating

5.0★

wp.org · 1 reviews

Downloads / 30d

200

Momentum

+13% low volume

30d vs the 30d before

Against 2517 tracked Forms plugins: health 75 vs 65 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.0★ vs 3.8★.

What we found

1 critical 3 opportunity 2 market context
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Open security vulnerability

Critical

A known unpatched vulnerability is recorded against this plugin.

What to do: Patch and release an advisory before anything else.

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Review volume is thin

Opportunity

Only 1 rating. 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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Healthy but under-discovered

Opportunity

This plugin scores 75/100 on health yet sits at 50 installs. The product is good; distribution is the gap.

What to do: A WP Mayor review and placement can put it in front of the right audience.

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Readme fails 2 of 8 AI readiness checks

Opportunity

AI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: names who it is for and headings and lists. One audience phrase ("who want"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.

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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Small download base. 200 downloads in 30 days, so a +13% 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.

Downloads, last 2 years

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

113 Nov 2026

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