Plugin audit
In Memoriam (Light a Candle)
In Memoriam (Light a Candle) has urgent issues capping its growth.
Active installs
100+
Rating
4.5★
wp.org · 4 reviews
Downloads / 30d
97
Momentum
+37% low volume
30d vs the 30d before
Against 5829 tracked Admin & Utilities plugins: health 45 vs 57 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.0★ vs 3.8★.
Where it ranks in wp.org search
Main keywords, best position first
- #4 in memoriam
- #11 light a candle Down 3
- #13 pray
Tags still to break into the top 24: candle, candles, widget.
What to fix first
- 1
Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.
No update in 117 months. wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users look for a recent release.
- 2
Set "Tested up to" to WordPress 7.1
Tested up to WordPress 4.7.39; the current branch is 7.1. Matching the current branch keeps its full search weight.
- 3
Ask happy users for a review
4 reviews so far. wp.org gives the rating more weight as the count grows past 25.
- 4
“candle” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “pray” sits at #13 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- 5
One page off on “light a candle”
#11 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Ranking signals
Listing score 38/100
- Update recency Holding it back
Updated 3521 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
- WP compatibility Holding it back
Tested up to WordPress 4.7.39; the current branch is 7.1
- Rating quality Holding it back
4.5★ over 4 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.1★ and held back under 25 reviews
- Listing tuning Strong
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
What we found
No update in 117 months
Criticalwp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users look for a recent release.
What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.
Review volume is thin
OpportunityOnly 4 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.
Readme fails 2 of 8 AI readiness checks
OpportunityAI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: says what it does and names what it works with. Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
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.
Run the free AI visibility scan →Small download base. 97 downloads in 30 days, so a +37% move is a few installs rather than a trend.
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.
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