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Daily Free Kindle Books

by Jeremy · Admin & Utilities

This plugin creates a sidebar widget that displays images of and links to free Kindle books for the day (updated daily). You can add your Amazon affil …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Reviews souring. Recent reviews read meaningfully worse than older ones, an early sign of decline.
  • No tested-up-to version. The listing declares no "Tested up to" version.

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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3858 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-2% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

54

now · peak 152

5430d downloads · Sep 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

Daily Free Kindle Bo · #42529 you Widgets for Google R · #68 Blocksy Companion · #165 Black Studio TinyMCE · #234

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.

5.4Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

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.

v1.0 100%

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 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations

10Installs · Sep 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.

Details

Version
1.0.1
Last updated
10.6y ago
Added
2016-02-08 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
Requires PHP

Recent review vibe

read from the latest 3 reviews to 2020-10-26
Deteriorating Broken updatesSupport gone quietPraise

Older reviews praised how easily it set up and auto-updated, but the newest one says the free books stopped refreshing, the links break, and there's no support.

Recent reviews

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  1. lyricalgypsy
    5.9y ago

    I loved having this plugin, but I had to delete it because there’s no support. The free books never update, and the link is usually broken.

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  2. avoini
    10.3y ago

    I love the idea behind this plug-in. Nice way to generate some extra income while providing your visitors with a useful service. Easy to set up and works great.

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  3. ldy127
    10.3y ago

    Very easy to install and use – it does what it says. New free kindle books are updated automatically in your sidebar everyday with your amazon affiliate code attached to them so you can generate extra income.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

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