Plugin audit
Volunteer Sign Up Sheets
Volunteer Sign Up Sheets is solid but leaving growth on the table.
Active installs
1K+
Rating
4.9★
wp.org · 42 reviews
Downloads / 30d
658
Momentum
+16% low volume
30d vs the 30d before
Against 1855 tracked Booking & Events plugins: health 75 vs 69 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.6★ vs 3.8★.
Where it ranks in wp.org search
Main keywords, best position first
- #6 volunteer Down 2
- #8 sign up
- #8 volunteers
- #12 sign Down 2
- #17 wp sign up
- #19 custom sign Down 3
- #19 sign on Down 5
- #22 sheets Down 2
What to fix first
- 1
Ship an update
Last release was 448 days ago. wp.org lowers a listing's search weight once it goes about 180 days without a release.
- 2
Swap “events” and “signup” for “sign” and “sheets”
“events” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “sign” sits at #12 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “signup” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “sheets” sits at #22 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Ranking signals
Listing score 80/100
- Update recency Holding it back
Updated 448 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
- WP compatibility Strong
Tested up to WordPress 6.8.12; the current branch is 7.1
- Rating quality Strong
4.9★ over 42 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.5★
- Listing tuning Strong
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
What we found
Update cadence is slipping
Needs workLast updated 15 months ago. Freshness is one of the strongest directory-ranking signals.
What to do: Get back on a visible release cadence, even minor releases.
Healthy but under-discovered
OpportunityThis plugin scores 75/100 on health yet sits at 1,000 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.
Readme fails 1 of 8 AI readiness checks
OpportunityAI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: headings and lists. 0 headings and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
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. 658 downloads in 30 days, so a +16% 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.
WP Mayor
Plugin promotion & growth
Volunteer Sign Up Sheets is a strong product that not enough people know about.
A WP Mayor review and placement put it in front of WordPress users who are choosing plugins.
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