Buy Me a Coffee – Membership, Paywall & Fundraiser with Stripe & PayPal
by Hasanuzzaman Shamim · Membership
WordPress membership, paywall, donation, and subscription plugin for creators. Monetize content with Stripe and PayPal.
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Health
B 83/100
Few reviews
Active installs
90+
≈90 estimated
Momentum
+17%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “donations” and “membership” for “fundraiser” and “buy”. “donations” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “fundraiser” sits at #5 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “membership” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “buy” sits at #20 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
83 health vs 71 average across 298 Membership plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.9%
of downloads still active
At least 90 of 4.8K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Membership plugin keeps 0.9%, across 165 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Membership plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 11 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 77 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
4.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.10★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
38
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
19%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| coffee | #2 | #15 | 0 |
| buy me a coffee | #2 | #15 | 0 |
| fundraiser | #5 | #17 | 0 |
| buy for me | #2 | #17 | 0 |
| paywall your tag | #10 | #22 | up 1 |
| buy | #20 | #23 | down 2 |
| patreon | #12 | #17 | up 2 |
| donations your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| membership your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| stripe payments your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| subscriptions your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
49 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 7 listed. 42 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “donations” and “membership” for “fundraiser” and “buy”. “donations” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “fundraiser” sits at #5 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “membership” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “buy” sits at #20 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Mar 2024 · 972 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 851 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #16,800 to #17,400, alongside the other plugins at 90+ 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.
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
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
11
releases in the last 12 months
3mo ago
latest release · v1.2.8 · 16 Aug 2026
17
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “90+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band today and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 90.
At the current install trend, crossing 100+ in roughly 39 days.
Install history since 4 Mar 2024
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ cybeardjm6mo ago
Interesting project, for me at least, as I’ve been reviewing soft ways to (web)monetize my blogs for quite some time now. Setting Stripe up is not fun (from their side).Will do more tests in the sandbox, but this plugin looks promising.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0
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
7 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ✓ Has a FAQ 25 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 25 of 25 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("use it", "built for", "who want").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Gutenberg, Stripe, PayPal and 1 more.
- ✓ Headings and lists 5 headings and 6 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 11,181 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "stripe payments" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-11-01 80+ → 90+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2026-10-26 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-10-25 80+ → 90+ up after 13 days in tier
- 2026-10-12 90+ → 80+ down after 35 days in tier
- 2026-09-07 80+ → 90+ up after 7 days in tier
- 2026-08-31 70+ → 80+ up after 24 days in tier
- 2026-08-07 60+ → 70+ up after 28 days in tier
- 2026-07-10 50+ → 60+ up after 24 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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Memberful – Membership Plugin 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A -
Stripe Payment Forms by WP Full Pay – Accept Credit Card Payments, Donations & Subscriptions 8K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
codoc 2K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
SureMembers – Membership & Content Restriction Plugin 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal 900+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
StoreEngine — Complete eCommerce Solution with Memberships, Licensing, Affiliates & More 700+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
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