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Copy Compass

by NickDuncan · SEO

Also makes 7 other plugins · 600+ installs across the portfolio →

Copy Compass automatically analyses your posts or pages to SEO best practices.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 42/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

10+

≈17 estimated

Momentum

-39%

low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month

Biggest opportunity: “content analysis”, “copy writing” and “copywriting” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

How scoring works →
42 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 67/100
Support 70/100

42 health vs 66 average across 2,241 SEO plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.2%

of downloads still active

At least 10 of 6.4K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median SEO plugin keeps 1.2%, across 1,198 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other SEO plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

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 16+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5, well behind 7.1.

Details

Version
1.4.2
Last updated
16.0y ago
Added
2010-09-07 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
2.9.2
Tested up to
3.0.5
Requires PHP
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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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 5858 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 1/100

Tested up to WordPress 3.0.5; the current branch is 7.1

Rating quality 50/100

1.0★ over 1 review, weighted for review count to 4.0★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 5858 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 7 Nov 2024 · 726 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-39% low volume vs prior 30d
22 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 73 · peaks are release surges

423 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #30,400 to #44,800, alongside the other plugins at 10+ 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.

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈17

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history since 15 Sep 2026

103 Nov 2026

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.

This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

3 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026

Can 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 Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
  • ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("ideal for", "who wants").
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 2 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,193 characters of description.
  • ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("Content analysis", "copy writing", "copywriting" missing).

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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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Copy Compass: 10+ active installs, 1.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/copy-compass

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