Complete PayPal Payments For WooCommerce
by Eric Babin · Payments
PayPal Checkout with Smart Payment Buttons gives your buyers a simplified and secure checkout experience.
46 health vs 66 average across 831 Payments plugins
Removal-risk signals
45/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
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 1149 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 2022-10-14 · 1,372 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
34
now · peak 149
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 “80+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-13 · 1,364 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-02-09 90+ → 80+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2026-02-03 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-02-02 90+ → 80+ down after 71 days in tier
- 2025-11-23 100+ → 90+ down after 8 days in tier
- 2025-11-15 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-14 100+ → 90+ down after 19 days in tier
- 2025-10-26 90+ → 100+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2025-10-17 100+ → 90+ down after 13 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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Payment Plugins for PayPal WooCommerce 80K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Payment Gateway for PayPal on WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
Payment Gateway of PayPal for WooCommerce 7K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
Payment Gateway for PayPal Pro & PayPal Checkout for WooCommerce 2K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Express Checkout via PayPal for WooCommerce 800+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags C -
YabandPay For WooCommerce 50+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags C
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