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Plugin audit

Simple Giveaways

Simple Giveaways has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

400+

Rating

4.6★

wp.org · 20 reviews

Downloads / 30d

282

Momentum

+15% low volume

30d vs the 30d before

What we found

1 critical 2 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 20 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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Healthy but under-discovered

Opportunity

This plugin scores 79/100 on health yet sits at 400 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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Small download base. 282 downloads in 30 days, so a +15% 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.

1125 Sep 2026

WP Mayor

Plugin promotion & growth

Simple Giveaways is a strong product that not enough people know about.

WP Mayor reaches hundreds of thousands of WordPress users a month. A review and placement can turn a healthy plugin into a growing one.

  • A WP Mayor review. An independent, in-depth review in front of a high-intent audience.
  • Newsletter coverage. A feature in the WP Mayor newsletter, straight to subscribers.
  • A new-features video. A short video walking through what is new and why it matters.
  • A sponsored placement. Targeted visibility across WP Mayor for a defined campaign.
  • Growth consulting. Work with our team directly on positioning, distribution and conversion.
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