DocBooker – Doctor Appointment Booking for Clinics & Hospitals
by WP Dreamers · Booking & Events
Also makes 2 other plugins · 180+ installs across the portfolio →
Let patients book a doctor online. Real free times, reminder emails, a cancel link, and a bookings dashboard for your clinics. Free, no limits.
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Health
Not scored
no reviews to score from
Active installs
80+
≈80 estimated
Momentum
+7%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “appointment booking”, “booking calendar” and “clinic” for “doctor”, “patient management” and “clinic management”. “appointment booking” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “doctor” sits at #13 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “booking calendar” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “patient management” sits at #14 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “clinic” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #12. “clinic management” sits at #23 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Not scored yet. Nobody has reviewed this plugin, so a grade would come from directory averages rather than from anything measured here.
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.9%
of downloads still active
At least 80 of 4.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Booking & Events plugin keeps 0.8%, across 941 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Booking & Events plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 11 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 14 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
No reviews yet, so wp.org scores it as a middling unrated listing
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: No reviews yet. wp.org scores an unrated plugin as middling on rating, so the first good reviews lift it.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
42
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.9
Velocity
places per keyword, 24d
31%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 24d
+0.9
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| docbooker | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| hospital management your tag | #5 | #11 | — |
| clinic your tag | #12 | #22 | down 2 |
| doctor appointment your tag | #12 | #20 | up 1 |
| doctor | #13 | #24 | down 1 |
| hospital | #7 | #16 | — |
| patient management | #14 | #20 | 0 |
| clinic management | #23 | #24 | down 13 |
| dental | #24 | #23 | down 1 |
| doctor management | #14 | #20 | down 8 |
| appointment booking your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| booking calendar your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
20 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 10 listed. 10 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “appointment booking”, “booking calendar” and “clinic” for “doctor”, “patient management” and “clinic management”. “appointment booking” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “doctor” sits at #13 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “booking calendar” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “patient management” sits at #14 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “clinic” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #12. “clinic management” sits at #23 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “clinic”. #12 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- One page off on “doctor appointment”. #12 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 22 Feb 2025 · 616 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 368 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #17,400 to #18,100, alongside the other plugins at 80+ 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.
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.
Release cadence
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
11
releases in the last 12 months
14d ago
latest release · v2.2.0 · 17 Oct 2026
20
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “80+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 80.
At the current install trend, crossing 90+ in roughly 737 days.
Install history since 22 Feb 2025
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more
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
6 of 8 pass · checked 26 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Let patients book a doctor online. Real free times, reminder emails, a cancel link, and a bookings dashboar..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 10 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 10 of 10 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Stripe.
- ✓ Headings and lists 6 headings and 4 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 5,201 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("appointment booking", "booking calendar", "hospital management" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-28 70+ → 80+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2026-10-22 80+ → 70+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2026-10-17 70+ → 80+ up after 32 days in tier
- 2026-09-15 60+ → 70+ up after 39 days in tier
- 2026-08-07 50+ → 60+ up after 21 days in tier
- 2026-07-17 60+ → 50+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2026-07-11 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-07-10 60+ → 70+ up after 48 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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Hospital Booking & Clinic Management System – Doctor Appointment Plugin by KrishnaDas — installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B -
Doctor Appointment Booking & Clinic Management – Alnora — installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags -
Online Scheduling and Appointment Booking System – Bookly 60K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Booking Calendar 40K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Bookit — Booking & Appointment Calendar 4K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Booking calendar, Appointment Booking System 3K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
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