Comment Moderation/Notification Recipients
by Rolf Allard van Hagen · Uncategorized
Also makes 7 other plugins · 109.5K+ installs across the portfolio →
Control who will receive new comment and moderation notifications. Light weight, simple, safe and effective.
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Health
A 86/100
Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈1.5K estimated
Momentum
+18%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “e mail”, “comment author” and “author description” to your wp.org tags. You rank #11, #16 and #23 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 3 listed these are the slots worth spending.
86 health vs 58 average across 25,756 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →3.8%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 26K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,773 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized 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 1 release 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 59 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.17★ and held back under 25 reviews
3 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.
39
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
19%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
+0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| comment moderation | #1 | #4 | 0 |
| comment moderation recipients your tag | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| moderation | #2 | #7 | 0 |
| comment notification your tag | #9 | #19 | up 1 |
| comments moderation | #3 | #8 | 0 |
| e mail | #11 | #18 | down 4 |
| comment author | #16 | #20 | down 3 |
| author description | #23 | #19 | up 1 |
| comments your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
22 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 8 listed. 14 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Add “e mail”, “comment author” and “author description” to your wp.org tags. You rank #11, #16 and #23 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 3 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1K · peaks are release surges
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
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
9mo ago
latest release · v0.7 · 19 Feb 2026
7
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 53% 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 “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2.6 years ago; the previous band took 4.4 years to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 14 Aug 2015
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
4 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 Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Multisite.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,456 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 3 tags appear in the text ("comment moderation recipients", "comments" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-04-06 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1604 days in tier
- 2019-11-15 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1474 days in tier
- 2015-11-02 2K+ → 3K+ up
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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FluentComments – AJAX Comments, Anti-Spam & Comment Email Notifications 700+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
WP Comment Notification 400+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 5M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Disable Comments 1M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Antispam Bee 700K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Anti-Spam, Spam FireWall by CleanTalk 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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