Category Buttons
by Ryvenia · eCommerce
Transform your online store with our simple plugin! The Category Buttons plugin makes it effortless to enhance your shop pages by adding custom catego …
55 health vs 68 average across 3,343 eCommerce plugins
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 744 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
36
now · peak 323
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,375 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-08-30 200+ → 100+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2025-08-24 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2025-08-21 200+ → 100+ down after 8 days in tier
- 2025-08-13 100+ → 200+ up after 39 days in tier
- 2025-07-05 200+ → 100+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2025-07-01 100+ → 200+ up after 13 days in tier
- 2025-06-18 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2025-06-13 100+ → 200+ up after 28 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Google for WooCommerce 800K+ installs · 2.7★ · 1 shared tag B -
WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.8★ · 1 shared tag B -
WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ installs · 3.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
WooCommerce Tax (formerly WooCommerce Shipping & Tax) 600K+ installs · 2.2★ · 1 shared tag C -
WooCommerce Legacy REST API 400K+ installs · 2.2★ · 1 shared tag D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/category-buttons" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Category Buttons — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Category Buttons: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/category-buttons