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Plugin audit

WP-BusinessDirectory

WP-BusinessDirectory has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

20+

Rating

4.5★

wp.org · 10 reviews

Downloads / 30d

225

Momentum

+9% low volume

30d vs the 30d before

Against 299 tracked Membership plugins: health 79 vs 71 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.2★ vs 3.8★.

What we found

1 critical 2 opportunity 1 market context
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Open security vulnerability

Critical

A known unpatched vulnerability is recorded against this plugin.

What to do: Patch and release an advisory before anything else.

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Review volume is thin

Opportunity

Only 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.

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Healthy but under-discovered

Opportunity

This plugin scores 79/100 on health yet sits at 20 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.

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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.

1129 Sep 2026

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WP-BusinessDirectory is a strong product that not enough people know about.

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