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Badge Management for WooCommerce

by Phoeniixx · eCommerce

Also makes 24 other plugins · 4.3K+ installs across the portfolio →

This plugin allows you to add badges to products on your ecommerce site. Badges on a product help you highlight special offers of the products.

Removed from WordPress.org

wp.org closed this plugin on 2026-08-10 — for a guideline violation. It's no longer installable or updated. If you're running it, plan a replacement: closures are often security-related and WordPress won't warn you.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

F 38/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

+38%

low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month

Biggest opportunity: “badge”, “badges” and “e commerce” 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.

How scoring works →
38 Health · F
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 56/100
Support 70/100

38 health vs 71 average across 9,828 eCommerce plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.3%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 39.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,174 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other eCommerce plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Details

Version
2.0.0
Last updated
4.4y ago
Added
2015-11-26 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
6.0.13
Requires PHP
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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.

45 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 6/100

Updated 1607 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 28/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.0.13; the current branch is 7.1

Rating quality 57/100

2.3★ over 9 reviews, weighted for review count to 3.8★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 1607 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,405 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+38% low volume vs prior 30d
39 Aug 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 512 · peaks are release surges

1929 Aug 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2.39 Aug 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.

1.9K9 Aug 2026

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

4.4y ago

latest release · v2.0 · 10 Jun 2022

19

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.0 · 10 Jun 20221.3.6 · 28 Dec 20201.3.5 · 5 Sep 20191.3.4 · 26 Jul 20191.3.3 · 26 Jul 20191.3.2 · 26 Dec 20181.3.1 · 13 Dec 20181.3.0 · 6 Nov 20181.2.9 · 7 Aug 20181.2.8 · 7 Aug 20181.2.7 · 10 Apr 20181.2.6 · 25 Jan 20181.2.5 · 6 Oct 20171.2.4 · 25 Aug 2017

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 60% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.0 60%
v1.3 40%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 9 months ago; the previous band took 18 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 3 Feb 2018

1009 Aug 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ dorondav
    7.0y ago

    Show me weird signs instead of text

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ silverbulletads
    7.5y ago

    This was the best support I’ve experienced. Kept at it until issue was sorted

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ loewenkunst
    7.9y ago

    First thing: this is the exact same plugin as this one https://wordpress.org/plugins/yith-woocommerce-badges-management/so don’t bother trying both of them. Second: You can put a square in different colours and one unchangeable font, or you can choose 4 pre-made badges, and that’s it. Not worth installing a plug-in for. This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by loewenkunst.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ tocuadrian
    8.6y ago

    First the pro version didn’t work, but with the help of support team now it works fine.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ icorp2015
    8.7y ago

    unusable

    Read on wp.org ↗
  6. ★★★★★ jtohme
    8.8y ago

    Never use! It corrupted my site with fatal error

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  7. ★★★★★ SFRSite
    9.6y ago

    The plugin does make simple badges that get the job done. However, when the product shows up in a “Most Recently Viewed” Widget, the badge overlays on the product making it unreadable and it looks terrible. I opened a ticket and did not expect a speedy response. I am, after all, using the free version of their product. After an extended wait (Which again, I didn’t mind since I am using a free version) I was told that this was a “custom” request, and I’d have to upgrade to the paid version where the issue was “fixed.” It’s not a custom request to ask for the layout to be correct in a common use case. In fact, I wasn’t asking them to fix it at all for me. I understand that free versions are limited, and usually have ads. I understand that developers really hope that you upgrade, after all, that’s how they will make their money. But paid versions usually have bonus functionality. I shouldn’t have upgrade to get something to actually work as intended by the developer.

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  8. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    9.7y ago

    The premium version of the plugin had a lot, but really a lot of problem. The support try a lot of time to resolve but did not fix the issue and i had a lot of server CPU problem. Absolutely not happy!

    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

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

Not checked yet. The readme could not be read from WordPress.org on this visit.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-01-25 200+ → 100+ down after 530 days in tier
  2. 2024-08-13 300+ → 200+ down after 318 days in tier
  3. 2023-09-30 400+ → 300+ down after 175 days in tier
  4. 2023-04-08 500+ → 400+ down after 186 days in tier
  5. 2022-10-04 1K+ → 500+ down after 413 days in tier
  6. 2021-08-17 800+ → 1K+ up after 888 days in tier
  7. 2019-03-13 900+ → 800+ down after 128 days in tier
  8. 2018-11-05 800+ → 900+ 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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Badge Management for WooCommerce: 100+ active installs, 2.3★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/badge-management-for-woocommerce

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