Running audit
WooSidebars
- Pulling install history
- Scoring plugin health
- Checking ranking factors
- Reading recent reviews
- Writing your report
Plugin audit
WooSidebars
WooSidebars has urgent issues capping its growth.
Active installs
100K+
Rating
3.9★
48 reviews
Downloads / 30d
4K
Momentum
+51%
30d vs the 30d before
Against 5897 tracked Admin & Utilities plugins: health 56 vs 56 average · rating 3.86★ vs 3.80★.
What we found
Likely abandoned
CriticalNo update in 31 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 4 of 8 AI readiness checks
Needs workAI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: names who it is for, names what it works with, headings and lists and enough to quote. 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 →Strong momentum. Downloads are accelerating (+51% vs prior month). Good moment to amplify.
Downloads, last 2 years
From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.
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