Subscribe Button by AddToAny
by micropat · Content & Feeds
Also makes 1 other plugin · 300.9K+ installs across the portfolio →
Help visitors subscribe to your blog using email or any feed reader, such as Feedly, The Old Reader, Yahoo!, AOL, and many more feed services.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
900+
≈970 estimated
Momentum
+37%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “button” and “feed” for “feedly” and “aol”. “button” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “feedly” sits at #19 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “feed” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “aol” sits at #23 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
45 health vs 64 average across 1,195 Content & Feeds plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.3%
of downloads still active
At least 900 of 262.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Content & Feeds plugin keeps 0.8%, across 864 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Content & Feeds plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39, well behind 6.8.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 2 reviews to 2017-12-09Both reviewers are happy, calling it an easy way to let readers subscribe through various aggregators, though the feedback here is old and sparse.
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3260 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.7.39; the current branch is 6.8
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 3260 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.
43
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.5
Velocity
places per keyword, 10d
33%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 10d
-1.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| addtoany | #13 | #13 | up 4 |
| feedly | #19 | #13 | up 1 |
| aol | #23 | #22 | 0 |
| button your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| feed your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| links your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| rss your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| subscribe your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
8 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 5 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “button” and “feed” for “feedly” and “aol”. “button” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “feedly” sits at #19 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “feed” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “aol” sits at #23 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.6K · peaks are release surges
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
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
10.0y ago
latest release · v.9.10.0 · 14 Nov 2016
41
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 “900+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 65% of the way through.
Install history since 4 Apr 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ D.Piyavkin8.9y ago
I’ve just started using it. Seems fine. Thanks!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ magcig10.8y ago
Nice plugin to easy allowing subscription to your blog trough various aggregators… Many Thanks!
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 84 languages, 3 at 90% or more · development strings
Plus 60 more locales with partial translations.
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
5 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Help visitors subscribe to your blog using email or any feed reader, such as Feedly, The Old Reader, Yahoo!..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 7 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 6 of 7 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Multisite.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 582 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "links" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-28 1K+ → 900+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-06-26 900+ → 1K+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-06-23 1K+ → 900+ down after 900 days in tier
- 2024-01-05 2K+ → 1K+ down after 458 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 3K+ → 2K+ down after 212 days in tier
- 2022-03-06 4K+ → 3K+ down after 498 days in tier
- 2020-10-24 6K+ → 4K+ down after 503 days in tier
- 2019-06-09 10K+ → 6K+ down
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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Podlove Subscribe button 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B -
GN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
RSS for Yandex Turbo 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
RSS Includes Pages 10K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Super RSS Reader – Add attractive RSS Feed Widget 9K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A - F FeedWordPress 8K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/add-to-any-subscribe" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Subscribe Button by AddToAny — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Subscribe Button by AddToAny: 900+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/add-to-any-subscribe
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