Academy Certificates – Certificate Builder for Academy LMS
by Academy LMS · Education
Also makes 3 other plugins · 830+ installs across the portfolio →
Create & customize certificates with Academy Certificates Add-on. Award your students with a certificate upon course completion to recognize their …
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Health
D 54/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
200+
≈250 estimated
Momentum
+9%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “certificates”, “course” and “learning management system” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
54 health vs 70 average across 281 Education plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.5%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 13.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Education plugin keeps 1.0%, across 176 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Education plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
36/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.4.14.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 2 reviews to 2022-12-10Both reviewers are glowing, calling it excellent and thanking the developer for making free course certificates possible.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 747 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.4.14; the current branch is 7.1
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 747 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
25
Momentum
Losing ground
-1.6
Velocity
places per keyword, 23d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 23d
-1.6
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| academy lms your tag | #17 | #19 | down 3 |
| academy | #21 | #20 | down 3 |
| certificates your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| course your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| learning management system your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| lms your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
5 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 3 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “certificates”, “course” and “learning management system” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 701 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
2.0y ago
latest release · v1.0.7 · 16 Oct 2024
8
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 8 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ neomie60113.9y ago
I just want to say thank you. Thank you for being a wonderful creator and creating this. We are grateful that you exist and that you created this. This helps our ministry to have a school and provide free education to everyone throughout the world. May you have a prosperous blessed life filled with love, joy, peace and happiness all the days of your life. Words can not express how grateful we are. Stay blessed!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ fer27344.4y ago
Excelent plugin, the best
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
6 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Create & customize certificates with Academy Certificates Add-on. Award your students with a certificate up..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("whether you are", "designed for", "who want").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Elementor, Gutenberg, Facebook.
- ✓ Headings and lists 5 headings and 3 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 7,145 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "learning management system" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-02-25 300+ → 200+ down after 255 days in tier
- 2025-06-15 400+ → 300+ down after 188 days in tier
- 2024-12-09 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2024-12-06 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-12-05 500+ → 400+ down after 50 days in tier
- 2024-10-16 600+ → 500+ down after 128 days in tier
- 2024-06-10 500+ → 600+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-06-08 600+ → 500+ down after 9 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses 70K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags B -
LifterLMS – WP LMS for eLearning, Online Courses, & Quizzes 10K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A -
MasterStudy LMS WordPress Plugin – for Online Courses and Education 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A -
LifterLMS Labs 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags A -
Oxygen Tutor LMS 200+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D
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