Category Indexer for WooCommerce
by Tihi · eCommerce
Also makes 2 other plugins · 710+ installs across the portfolio →
Control meta robots, canonicals, link juice & crawling budget on WooCommerce shop/category pages. Auto 404 redirect handling for better SEO.
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Health
Not scored
no reviews to score from
Active installs
10+
≈17 estimated
Momentum
-16%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: Swap “404 redirect” for “indexer”. “404 redirect” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “indexer” sits at #7 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Not scored yet. Nobody has reviewed this plugin, so a grade would come from directory averages rather than from anything measured here.
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.7%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 1.5K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,168 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
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.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 202 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11; the current branch is 7.1
No reviews yet, so wp.org scores it as a middling unrated listing
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: No reviews yet. wp.org scores an unrated plugin as middling on rating, so the first good reviews lift it.
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.
30
Momentum
Losing ground
-1.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
+0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| indexer | #7 | #7 | 0 |
| link juice | #14 | #18 | 0 |
| crawl budget your tag | #21 | #23 | down 4 |
| 404 redirect your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| canonical your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| meta robots your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| woocommerce your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
6 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 3 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 “404 redirect” for “indexer”. “404 redirect” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “indexer” sits at #7 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 24 Nov 2024 · 708 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 64 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,400 to #44,800, alongside the other plugins at 10+ 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.
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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history since 15 Sep 2026
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
7 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Control meta robots, canonicals, link juice & crawling budget on WooCommerce shop/category pages. Auto 404..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 10 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 10 of 10 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use cases"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Yoast, Rank Math.
- ✓ Headings and lists 9 headings and 10 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 5,051 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
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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WooCommerce 7M+ installs · 4.5★ A -
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Google for WooCommerce 800K+ installs · 2.8★ C -
WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.9★ B -
YITH WooCommerce Wishlist 400K+ installs · 3.9★ B -
WooCommerce Legacy REST API 400K+ installs · 2.2★ C
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