Plugin audit
Sold Out Badge for WooCommerce
Sold Out Badge for WooCommerce has urgent issues capping its growth.
Active installs
8K+
Rating
4.8★
wp.org · 25 reviews
Downloads / 30d
530
Momentum
+43% low volume
30d vs the 30d before
Against 9545 tracked eCommerce plugins: health 51 vs 71 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.5★ vs 3.8★.
Where it ranks in wp.org search
Main keywords, best position first
- #1 wcsob
- #10 sold out badge
Tags still to break into the top 24: badge, out of stock, sold out.
What to fix first
- 1
Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.
No update in 42 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 6.2.15; the current branch is 7.1. Matching the current branch keeps its full search weight.
- 3
Swap “badge” for “sold out badge”
“badge” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “sold out badge” sits at #10 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 56/100
- Update recency Holding it back
Updated 1256 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
- WP compatibility Holding it back
Tested up to WordPress 6.2.15; the current branch is 7.1
- Rating quality Strong
4.8★ over 25 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.3★
- Listing tuning Strong
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
What we found
No update in 42 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.
Readme fails 1 of 8 AI readiness checks
OpportunityAI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: names who it is for. Never says who the plugin is for or 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.
Run the free AI visibility scan →Small download base. 530 downloads in 30 days, so a +43% 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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