Plugin audit
Superb Social Media Share Buttons and Follow Butto
Superb Social Media Share Buttons and Follow Butto is solid but leaving growth on the table.
Active installs
6K+
Rating
4.4★
wp.org · 11 reviews
Downloads / 30d
1.4K
Momentum
+29%
30d vs the 30d before
Against 1899 tracked Social plugins: health 77 vs 58 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.1★ vs 3.8★.
Where it ranks in wp.org search
Main keywords, best position first
- #1 follow us buttons
- #2 follow me
- #2 superb
- #3 follow
- #3 follow buttons
- #3 follow us Down 2
- #3 social bookmarking Up 1
- #3 twitter follow button Up 1
What to fix first
- 1
Ask happy users for a review
11 reviews so far. wp.org gives the rating more weight as the count grows past 25.
- 2
Swap “media”, “share” and “social” for “bookmarking”, “share buttons” and “floating sidebar”
“media” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “bookmarking” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “share” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “share buttons” sits at #12 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “social” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “floating sidebar” sits at #20 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- 3
Down 7 places since 2026-09-20, now #24. Check what shipped around then, and what moved above you.
- 4
Get back on a visible release cadence, even minor releases.
Last updated 10 months ago. Freshness is one of the strongest directory-ranking signals.
Ranking signals
Listing score 83/100
- Update recency Strong
Updated 290 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
- WP compatibility Strong
Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11; the current branch is 7.1
- Rating quality Holding it back
4.4★ over 11 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.2★ and held back under 25 reviews
- Listing tuning Strong
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
What we found
Update cadence is slipping
Needs workLast updated 10 months ago. Freshness is one of the strongest directory-ranking signals.
What to do: Get back on a visible release cadence, even minor releases.
Review volume is thin
OpportunityOnly 11 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.
Healthy but under-discovered
OpportunityThis plugin scores 77/100 on health yet sits at 6,000 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: says what it does. 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 →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
Superb Social Media Share Buttons and Follow Butto 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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