Category Search Explorer
by Sirajum Mahdi · eCommerce
A powerful and user-friendly category search tool for WordPress. Perfect for sites with extensive categories, tags, or custom taxonomies.
58 health vs 76 average across 1,479 eCommerce plugins
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
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 517 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 2025-02-15 · 517 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
20
now · peak 83
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2025-02-15 · 504 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-04-10 — → 10+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Media Library Assistant 70K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A - P Post Tags and Categories for Pages 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B
- V Visual Term Description Editor 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags C
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Essential Widgets 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Hide Categories and Products for Woocommerce 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Google for WooCommerce 800K+ installs · 2.7★ · 1 shared tag B
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