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Content Upgrades

by timsoulo · Email & Marketing

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Use this plugin to create content upgrades, which require your readers to subscribe to your email list to get access to the bonus materials.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
42 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 66/100
Support 70/100

42 health vs 63 average across 1,298 Email & Marketing plugins

20+

Active installs

≈29 estimated

3.9K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.65★

Rating (adjusted)

2.7★ raw · 3 reviews

+38%

40

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 6.8.

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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4172 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+38% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

40

now · peak 59

4030d downloads · Aug 26

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

Content Upgrades · #26323 you Mailchimp List Subsc · #672 Mailjet Email Market · #1511 Allow Multiple Accou · #2254

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2.7Stars · Aug 26

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.

2Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

11.4y ago

latest release · v1.1

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 11.4y ago1.0 · 11.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈29

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-31 · 1,381 observations

20Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 3 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
1 1★
1

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
11.4y ago
Added
2015-02-05 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
4.1.42
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ mdeno
    10.4y ago

    There are not enough options in the free version to make a proper assessment of this plugin. It only offers one email auto responder (MailChimp) I don’t use mail chip so I can’t test it out without buying it. Otherwise the concept looks good but I like to try before I buy.

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  2. ★★★★★ ideedesigns
    10.6y ago

    The plugin keeps trying to get you to upgrade to the PRO version without delivering results in the basic version. Waited 10 minutes before the test email arrived in my inbox after setting up the content upgrade. Even then, I was not directed to the download page. Useless

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  3. ★★★★★ dpskipper
    11.5y ago

    I like it

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✕ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-08-01 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2025-07-31 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-07-30 30+ → 20+ down after 75 days in tier
  4. 2025-05-16 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-05-15 30+ → 20+ down after 7 days in tier
  6. 2025-05-08 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-05-07 30+ → 20+ down after 33 days in tier
  8. 2025-04-04 20+ → 30+ up after 44 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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