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Aspire Smart FAQ plugin

by AspireSolution · Chat & Support

Also makes 3 other plugins · 240+ installs across the portfolio →

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With Aspire Smart FAQ you can use custom post types and taxonomies to manage FAQs section for your site along with many more features.

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

44 health vs 63 average across 671 Chat & Support plugins

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

4.5K

Total downloads

since 2013

3.87★

Rating (adjusted)

3.8★ raw · 5 reviews

+7%

62

Downloads · 30d

category median +15%

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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, 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.

29 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4676 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+7% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

62

now · peak 137

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

Aspire Smart FAQ plu · #26041 you VK Blocks · #391 Easy Accordion · #580 BetterDocs · #941

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.

3.1Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2019-11-19 · 1,382 observations

20Installs · 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 · 5 reviews

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5★
3 4★
0 3★
1 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
12.8y ago
Added
2013-09-12 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ digriz01
    10.5y ago

    I like the plugin, but the individual FAQs are not working links, therefore they don’t work as search results, get flagged by google as errors if you don’t noindex them, etc.

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  2. ★★★★★ johny111
    12.8y ago

    Perfectly worked.

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  3. ★★★★★ sturtz
    12.8y ago

    None of the FAQs show up and their “support” leaves a lot to be desired: there is none. I posted a request for help and never received an answer. if you get this, you’d better hope it works the first time or you’re SOL.

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  4. ★★★★★ Andy8383
    13.0y ago

    Nice and easy to use with all the features you can ask for in FAQ plugin

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  5. ★★★★★ Tahir Mushtaq
    13.0y ago

    Thanks for the excellent work. If you are a developer yourself, you will find this plugin to be customizeable and this makes it stand out. Great Job i must say !

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Behavioral tests

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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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-01-15 30+ → 20+ down after 725 days in tier
  2. 2024-01-21 40+ → 30+ down after 222 days in tier
  3. 2023-06-13 50+ → 40+ down after 56 days in tier
  4. 2023-04-18 40+ → 50+ up after 42 days in tier
  5. 2023-03-07 50+ → 40+ down after 66 days in tier
  6. 2022-12-31 40+ → 50+ up after 10 days in tier
  7. 2022-12-21 50+ → 40+ down

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