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Accredible Certificates & Open Badges

by accredible · Education

Also makes 1 other plugin · 150+ installs across the portfolio →

Certificates, open badges and blockchain credentials. Create, update and manage them on your Wordpress site.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
73 Health · B
Maintenance 87/100
Rating quality 58/100
Support 70/100

73 health vs 66 average across 169 Education plugins

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.

89 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 99/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,428 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-4% vs prior 30d
8Downloads · Sep 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

135

now · peak 370

14430d downloads · Sep 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Accredible Certifica · #17514 you Accredible LearnDash · #19421 ValidateCertify Free · #7011 Sensei LMS Certifica · #3295

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2Stars · Sep 26

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.

1.8Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

3

releases in the last 12 months

6mo ago

latest release · v1.6.1

12

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.6.1 · 6mo ago1.6.0 · 9mo ago1.5.3 · 10mo ago1.5.2 · 1.2y ago1.5.1 · 1.2y ago1.5.0 · 1.3y ago1.4.9 · 2.6y ago1.4.8 · 4.1y ago1.4.7 · 5.0y ago1.4.6 · 5.0y ago1.4.5 · 5.5y ago1.4.4 · 5.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 50% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.4 50%
v1.6 50%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “80+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
80–90 ≈87

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-05-16 · 1,386 observations

80Installs · Sep 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.6.1
Last updated
6mo ago
Added
2014-11-20 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
6.2
Tested up to
6.8.8
Requires PHP

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2025-04-09 CVE-2024-13909 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects <= 1.4.9 Patched in 1.5.0
  2. 2023-12-19 CVE-2023-50827 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.4.8 Patched in 1.4.9

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-08-22 90+ → 80+ down after 15 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-07 80+ → 90+ up after 41 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-27 90+ → 80+ down after 3 days in tier
  4. 2026-06-24 80+ → 90+ up after 18 days in tier
  5. 2026-06-06 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-06-05 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-06-04 90+ → 80+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2026-06-02 80+ → 90+ up after 23 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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Accredible Certificates & Open Badges: 80+ active installs, 2.0★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/accredible-certificates