Amp Stories for WordPress

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Amp Stories for Wordpress. Amp Stories allows you to create a visual storytelling format for the open web.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 45/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

30+

≈36 estimated

Momentum

+22%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “amp”, “amp stories” and “mobile” 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.

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How scoring works →

45 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 76/100

Support 70/100

45 health vs 65 average across 2,217 SEO plugins

30+

Active installs

≈36 estimated

8.6K

Total downloads

since 2018 · 0.4% still active

4.0/5

Rating

4.5 on wp.org · 4 reviews

+22%

100

Downloads · 30d

category median +10%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.4%

of downloads still active

At least 30 of 8.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median SEO plugin keeps 1.2%, across 1,193 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other SEO 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

63/100

Maintenance 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 4 reviews

Details

Version: 1.3.2
Last updated: 7.3y ago
Added: 2018-04-25 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP: 4.8
Tested up to: 5.2.30
Requires PHP: 5.6

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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 4 reviews to 2020-05-15

Mixed PraiseOnboardingCompatibility

Reviewers like how easy it is to build AMP stories without touching code, though the most recent one says it doesn't work alongside LearnDash.

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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 1/100

Updated 2675 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 15/100

Tested up to WordPress 5.2.30; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 55/100

4.5★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 2675 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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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.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

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
elias margolis your tag	#1	#1	0
amp your tag	Not in the top 24
amp stories your tag	Not in the top 24
mobile your tag	Not in the top 24
seo your tag	Not in the top 24

1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

What to do about it

“amp”, “amp stories” and “mobile” 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 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+22% vs prior 30d

331 Oct 2026

122-8

331 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 100 · peaks are release surges

9631 Oct 2026

100500

9631 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #23,000 to #24,800, alongside the other plugins at 30+ 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 21 Oct 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.531 Oct 2026

52.50

4.531 Oct 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

Release cadence

No release in a year

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.

releases in the last 12 months

7.3y ago

latest release · v1.3.2 · 6 Jul 2019

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.2 · 6 Jul 20191.3.1 · 12 Aug 20181.3 · 12 Aug 20181.2 · 8 May 20181.1 · 6 May 20181.0 · 1 May 2018

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

30–40 ≈36

Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 62% of the way through.

Install history since 2 Mar 2020

3031 Oct 2026

4002000

3031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗

★★★★★ thery
6.5y ago

Hello, does not seem to work with Learndash, too bad because with the pages and articles of the same site it works very well
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★★★★★ iheartindie
7.6y ago

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★★★★★ andrewbaker1
8.1y ago

This Plug in works great, it helps us to create our first AMP stories with no need to apply codification of any kind. Its perfect for people who needs to create new visual posts with no time to lose. Its a functional and practical Plug in. I do not know anything related to HTML or Java or whatsever and even so I have posted my own AMP in my WordPress Thanks you Ellias!
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★★★★★ wellbeingtips
8.2y ago

Amp Stories is an interesting field. Thanks to your plugin I can create some stories in WP. Keep up the great job you do!
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Turkish 8%

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

3 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

✓ Says what it does "Amp Stories for Wordpress. Amp Stories allows you to create a visual storytelling format for the open web."
! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("if you have", "if you want").
✓ Names what it works with Mentions Facebook, Twitter.
! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
! Enough to quote 864 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("elias margolis", "mobile", "seo" missing).

Growth timeline

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

2026-06-16 40+ → 30+ down after 191 days in tier
2025-12-07 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
2025-12-06 40+ → 50+ up after 2 days in tier
2025-12-04 50+ → 40+ down after 62 days in tier
2025-10-03 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in tier
2025-10-02 50+ → 60+ up after 6 days in tier
2025-09-26 60+ → 50+ down after 119 days in tier
2025-05-30 70+ → 60+ down after 1 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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Amp Stories for WordPress: 30+ active installs, 4.5★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/amp-story

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