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Popular Brand Icons
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Plugin audit
Popular Brand Icons
Popular Brand Icons has urgent issues capping its growth.
Active installs
3K+
Rating
4.7★
wp.org · 10 reviews
Downloads / 30d
426
Momentum
+87% low volume
Small base
Against 1835 tracked Social plugins: health 52 vs 58 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.3★ vs 3.8★.
What we found
Open security vulnerability
CriticalA known unpatched vulnerability is recorded against this plugin.
What to do: Patch and release an advisory before anything else.
Likely abandoned
CriticalNo update in 36 months. wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users avoid them.
What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.
Readme fails 5 of 8 AI readiness checks
Needs workAI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: says what it does, has a faq, faq asks real questions, names who it is for and tags match the text. 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 →Review volume is thin
OpportunityOnly 10 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.
Small download base. 426 downloads in 30 days, so a +87% move is a few installs rather than a trend.
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.
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