Change WooCommerce Product Author – Transfer Ownership of WooCommerce Products
by FahimMurshed · eCommerce
Also makes 7 other plugins · 350+ installs across the portfolio →
Easily change WooCommerce product author ownership. Bulk transfer product authors, manage permissions, and display frontend author cards.
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Health
B 84/100
Few reviews
Active installs
200+
≈250 estimated
Momentum
-1%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Rating quality scores 54/100. Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
84 health vs 71 average across 9,786 eCommerce plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →3.1%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 6.4K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,166 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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 95 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
4.7★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ 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.
34
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.7
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
11%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| transfer product ownership your tag | #2 | #9 | — |
| change product author your tag | #5 | #17 | down 1 |
| product author | #6 | #14 | down 1 |
| woocommerce product author your tag | #9 | #21 | down 1 |
| transfer | #14 | #20 | up 1 |
| woocommerce disclaimer product | #5 | #11 | 0 |
| change product title | #16 | #22 | down 1 |
| display author | #23 | #23 | down 1 |
| reassign product author your tag | Not checked yet | ||
| woocommerce author permissions your tag | Not checked yet | ||
41 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 8 listed. 33 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Your five tags are all earning their place. Each gets you onto page 1 of its own search, so none is worth giving up. “transfer” (#14 untagged) would be the next worth testing if a slot frees up.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 374 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ 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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. 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 “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 12 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 16 Sep 2020
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ ivarb4.7y ago
Not 5 stars because took me some time to find out, that only Administrators appear in the drop-down menu of the product-Author. Without this extra information not so easy as the plugin says. Once a new Administrator is used as author of a product, you can change the user to Editor (for security better) and the new user will still appear in the product-Author drop-down list.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Vik K6.5y ago
Bro – thank you so much fahim for making this plugin, it does what it says it’ll do. Great! As a convenience, it would be cool to add the option to change the author in the page itself as opposed to editing in the “quick settings” only, but that’s me being spoiled. I greatly appreciate you creating this plugin!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ reallyjustsam6.5y ago
This plugin delivers! I’m expanding my art site to other users and needed a way to give them authorship so the site can show their biographies, but products don’t allow you to assign authorship. Fixed it! Thank you!
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.
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 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Easily change WooCommerce product author ownership. Bulk transfer product authors, manage permissions, and..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 6 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 6 of 6 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.
- ✓ Headings and lists 3 headings and 2 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,182 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "transfer product ownership", "woocommerce author permissions" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-11-08 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-07 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-06 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2025-11-04 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-03 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2025-11-01 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-10-31 300+ → 200+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2025-10-24 200+ → 300+ up after 3 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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