AffiliateWP – Sign Up Bonus
by Syed Balkhi · Login & Users
Also makes 99 other plugins · 21.7M+ installs across the portfolio →
Entice more affiliates to register by offering them a sign up bonus
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Health
Not scored
no reviews to score from
Active installs
300+
≈380 estimated
Momentum
+40%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: Swap “affiliatewp” for “sign up”. “affiliatewp” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #13. “sign up” sits at #20 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Not scored yet. Nobody has reviewed this plugin, so a grade would come from directory averages rather than from anything measured here.
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.1%
of downloads still active
At least 300 of 14.2K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Login & Users plugin keeps 0.7%, across 1,478 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Login & Users plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 7 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
No reviews yet, so wp.org scores it as a middling unrated listing
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: No reviews yet. wp.org scores an unrated plugin as middling on rating, so the first good reviews lift it.
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.
36
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 13d
11%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 13d
+0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sign up bonus your tag | #1 | #9 | — |
| bonus | #3 | #22 | 0 |
| registration bonus your tag | #4 | #18 | — |
| affiliate bonus your tag | #5 | #19 | 0 |
| new affiliate bonus your tag | #5 | #18 | 0 |
| affiliatewp your tag | #13 | #21 | up 1 |
| sign up | #20 | #24 | 0 |
| e sign | #10 | #23 | 0 |
11 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 8 listed. 3 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Swap “affiliatewp” for “sign up”. “affiliatewp” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #13. “sign up” sits at #20 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “affiliatewp”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,491 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 548 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ 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.
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
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
13d ago
latest release · v1.3.2 · 21 Oct 2026
6
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 “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2 months ago and the previous band took 18 months to cross, so the real count is still just under 400.
Install history since 22 Mar 2015
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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
1 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 Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,105 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("affiliate bonus", "new affiliate bonus", "registration bonus" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-08-29 400+ → 300+ down after 529 days in tier
- 2025-03-18 500+ → 400+ down after 304 days in tier
- 2024-05-18 600+ → 500+ down after 592 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 100+ → 600+ up after 2545 days in tier
- 2015-10-16 40+ → 100+ up
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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AffiliateWP – Affiliate Area Tabs 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B -
AffiliateWP – Order Details For Affiliates 2K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag - A AffiliateWP – Affiliate Product Rates 1K+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag B
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AffiliateWP – Affiliate QR Codes 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag - A AffiliateWP – Affiliate Info 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag
- A AffiliateWP – Leaderboard 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
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