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Create with Code

by pddring · Uncategorized

Create with code lets you quickly embed and run your python projects in your website / blog

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⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews⚠ Open vulnerability

Health

C 57/100

Stale · Few reviews · Open vulnerability

Active installs

300+

≈370 estimated

Momentum

+15%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Swap “code” for “teaching”. “code” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “teaching” sits at #22 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.

How scoring works →
57 Health · C
Maintenance 29/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100
Security 65/100

57 health vs 58 average across 25,737 Uncategorized plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

2.2%

of downloads still active

At least 300 of 13.9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,771 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.

Details

Version
1.4
Last updated
1.9y ago
Added
2017-09-08 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
3.2
Tested up to
6.7.11
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.

71 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 38/100

Updated 681 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.7.11; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 56/100

4.2★ over 5 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 681 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+15% vs prior 30d
531 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 246 · peaks are release surges

12931 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ 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 21 Oct 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.231 Oct 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

5731 Oct 2026

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.

43031 Oct 2026

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

6.6y ago

latest release · v1.4 · 26 Mar 2020

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4 · 26 Mar 20201.2 · 9 Sep 20191.1 · 24 May 2019

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.

v1.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈370

Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 69% of the way through.

Install history since 21 Jul 2019

30031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ headyrooms
    9mo ago

    This plugin was perfect for my use case. I wanted to embed a Python script in a WordPress post and allow readers to execute it to see console print. I also hoped I could use the short code in a post’s “excerpt” and it would just work. Indeed, it just worked.

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  2. ★★★★★ ishaq01
    5.7y ago

    It is a good plugin with python 3 support and allows u to run and test python within you browser. It have some limitations but I think, with all its features these limitations are bearable.

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  3. ★★★★★ WPguy
    5.9y ago

    I’m not sure why the plugin doesn’t get as much love as it deserves. It’s free and simple. Great for programming basics. It surely has some limitations but it does its job well. This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by WPguy.

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  4. ★★★★★ joooeey
    6.1y ago

    I was quite excited about this tool. Then disappointed to find out that the interpreter doesn’t implement the Python language correctly. Literally the first I thing I tried didn’t work the way it should: Python guarantees that sorting is stable, so if you run sorted(mylist, key=...) twice with different key keywords, the first sort should be preserved. But that didn’t work in Withcode. Too bad.

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  5. ★★★★★ zer0sn0t
    7.8y ago

    This plugin is very easy to use. It allows you to run Python 3 code and displays the output on your website. The code displayed is color coded and we have a big sign informing the user to press “ctrl + enter” to run the Python 3 code. I like the color combination and the big sign (though I wish that that sign was permanent). What I understand is that Python is installed on a remote server. This plugin allows you to make requests to that server with Python code, run it, and fetch the output. This is done easily with a ctrl+enter keyboard shortcut. Once you enter the hotkey, it displays the output in a pretty well-contrasted theme that IMO is a color combination that should work with loads of themes. As for the execution of the code, I think that it is pretty flawless. Although I’m not sure whether file management is supported or not. The execution is pretty instantaneous runs, pretty flawlessly, on a remote server. Everything runs in a sandboxed environment. So you don’t need to bother about any python installation issues + security issues. The default color for this widget is quite classy and it goes with multiple theme selections. Overall, I’m quite satisfied with this plugin. This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by zer0sn0t. This topic was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by zer0sn0t.

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Security history

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 open vulnerability affects the current version (1.4). 0 of 1 disclosed are patched.

  1. 2025-01-24 CVE-2025-24638 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.4 Patched in 1.5

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ 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

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

2 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Create with code lets you quickly embed and run your python projects in your website / blog"
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use it"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,477 characters of description.
  • ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("computing", "createwithcode", "cs" missing).

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-10 400+ → 300+ down after 251 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-01 500+ → 400+ down after 285 days in tier
  3. 2025-01-20 400+ → 500+ up after 47 days in tier
  4. 2024-12-04 500+ → 400+ down after 322 days in tier
  5. 2024-01-17 600+ → 500+ down after 1088 days in tier
  6. 2021-01-24 300+ → 600+ 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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