Awesome Widgets for SiteOrigin Page Builder
by Phoeniixx · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 24 other plugins · 4.3K+ installs across the portfolio →
Easy & quick to install high-end Awesome Widgets for SiteOrigin Page Builder help you add Featured Collection, New Arrival, Sale Off, Best Seller, …
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Health
D 41/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
500+
≈560 estimated
Momentum
+22%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: “best seller”, “category based products” and “featured collection widget” 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.
41 health vs 56 average across 5,905 Admin & Utilities plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.6%
of downloads still active
At least 500 of 78.2K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,194 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27, well behind 7.1.
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2475 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.3.27; the current branch is 7.1
2.8★ over 5 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.0★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2475 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.
32
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 22d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 22d
-0.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| best seller your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| category based products your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| featured collection widget your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| new arrival your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| sale off your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
7 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 7 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
- “best seller”, “category based products” and “featured collection widget” 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 · 1,491 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 200 · 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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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
6.8y ago
latest release · v3.0 · 24 Jan 2020
20
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% 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 “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 58% of the way through.
Install history since 19 Mar 2016
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ mughalwaheed7.0y ago
Very poor experience
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Vritt9.2y ago
Great service – it was a tricky one but they kept at it and solved the problem!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ notteilsaggio9.7y ago
This is the only free widget that shows products by category. It is Donald Duck proof: so easy that there’s only two options. Once You insert the widget it works by itself automatically. The lack of a control over the transition speed and the “rewind” effect at the end are the only defects for me. Something I can live without, obviously. This topic was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by notteilsaggio.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ marius_d9.7y ago
I’ve installed this plugin on WP Mulitiste and the first menu item takes me to a 404 error page, the 2nd and 3rd menu items ask me to purchase the Premium version. So, this plugin does absolutely nothing other than ask you to pay! No no no
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ WhirledPress9.9y ago
I installed this plugin with a series of other plugins without realizing that I needed Woo Commerce. No biggy, right? WRONG. Every single page load (even when not in admin) pops up a closeable alert (or sometimes 3) telling you to activate WooCommerce. The problem is that it doesn’t identify which plugin is creating this ridiculous error. There is no indicator at all until you pour through all your plugins and find the one that A) literally delays loading of every page and then flashes the error before the page is displayed, B) puts the error in every alert and every comment window possible, and C) provides the ability to close the anonymous alert window(s), but they come right back. It is so unprofessional and so unnerving, I won’t even give them a try once I activate WooCommerce. I can understand one alert, but if I say, I got it, leave me alone. Way too pushy and breaks user display–not acceptable.
Read on wp.org ↗
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
5 of 8 pass · checked 3 Nov 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Easy & quick to install high-end Awesome Widgets for SiteOrigin Page Builder help you add Featured Collecti..."
- ! 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 Mentions WooCommerce, Multisite.
- ✓ Headings and lists 19 headings and 16 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 4,790 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "category based products" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-04 600+ → 500+ down after 191 days in tier
- 2025-11-25 700+ → 600+ down after 193 days in tier
- 2025-05-16 800+ → 700+ down after 81 days in tier
- 2025-02-24 900+ → 800+ down after 158 days in tier
- 2024-09-19 1K+ → 900+ down after 716 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 2K+ → 1K+ down after 882 days in tier
- 2020-05-05 3K+ → 2K+ down after 792 days in tier
- 2018-03-05 20+ → 3K+ up
Competes with
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