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Artistography

by MistahWrite · Media

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Organizes a portfolio of music, videos, and images on your blog/website with PayPal eCommerce.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 59 average across 2,206 Media plugins

10+

Active installs

≈17 estimated

5.8K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.84★

Rating (adjusted)

3.5★ raw · 2 reviews

-7%

62

Downloads · 30d

category median +22%

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 6.8.

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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4187 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-7% vs prior 30d
5Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

62

now · peak 232

6230d 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

Artistography · #40817 you Featured Audio · #9361 Transcoder · #9488 Safe SVG · #54

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.

6.2Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

11.5y ago

latest release · v0.3.3-alpha

56

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.3.3-alpha · 11.5y ago0.3.2 · 11.5y ago0.3.2-alpha · 11.5y ago0.3.1 · 11.5y ago0.3.1-alpha5 · 11.5y ago0.3.1-alpha4 · 11.5y ago0.3.1-alpha2 · 11.5y ago0.3.1-alpha · 11.5y ago0.3.0 · 11.5y ago0.3.0-alpha5 · 11.5y ago0.3.0-alpha4 · 11.5y ago0.3.0-alpha3 · 11.5y ago0.3.0-alpha2 · 11.5y ago0.2.8 · 11.5y ago

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.

v0.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈17

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations

10Installs · 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.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
1 1★
0

Details

Version
0.3.3-alpha2
Last updated
11.5y ago
Added
2015-02-03 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
4.1.42
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ SJW
    11.2y ago

    This plugin would not activate after install: PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /wp-content/plugins/artistography/class/orders.php.inc on line 378

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  2. ★★★★★ MistahWrite
    11.5y ago

    Constant improvements to the admin interface, and the client-side/visitor’s perspective. The project has been in the SVN repository for about 2-3 weeks and has gone from version 0.0.1 to 0.3.0 with major feature additions and minor bug fixes all along the way. It provides artist/music management, image galleries, PayPal order review, a download manager, ZUpload Java Upload Applet as a means of uploading large files to download, and a means of tying everything together. This plugin is sure to be a major plugin used by artists of all walks of life trying to monetize off their craft.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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