Dropp Pay Per Use
by Dropp Payment App · Membership
Also makes 3 other plugins · 20+ installs across the portfolio →
Effortlessly monetize your publication with Dropp Pay Per Use. Accept micropayments for your content.
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Health
B 83/100
Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈17 estimated
Momentum
-22%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: One page off on “micropayment”. #15 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
83 health vs 71 average across 298 Membership plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.4%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 2.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Membership plugin keeps 0.9%, across 165 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Membership 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
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 1 reviews to 2023-12-06The one review here is happy: setup took about 10 minutes with the quick start, and the pay per use model beats subscription plugins and credit card fees.
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 19 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
38
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
+0.1
Velocity
places per keyword, 10d
13%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 10d
+0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pay per use your tag | #2 | #19 | 0 |
| dropp | #2 | #2 | 0 |
| micropayment your tag | #15 | #20 | 0 |
| micropayments | #15 | #20 | 0 |
| pay per minute | #15 | #24 | 0 |
| pay per view | #17 | #24 | 0 |
| pay per post | #17 | #24 | 0 |
| paywall your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| publication your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| subscription your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
9 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 7 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- One page off on “micropayment”. #15 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- “paywall”, “publication” and “subscription” 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.
Daily downloads
Since 30 Aug 2023 · 1,159 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 178 · peaks are release surges
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.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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
No release in a yearHow 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
1.5y ago
latest release · v1.2.0 · 9 May 2025
3
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 “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history since 29 Aug 2023
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ radisson2.9y ago
This pay per use plugin is a welcome change in the sea of subscription only plugins. I used their 3 step quick start process and was able to set it up within 10 minutes. It was easy enough to put 100s of articles behind the pay per use paywall and don’t have to shell out hefty credit card fees.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.1
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
4 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Effortlessly monetize your publication with Dropp Pay Per Use. Accept micropayments for your content."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 6 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 3,209 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "paywall" does not.
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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codoc 2K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
ITERAS 30+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Pelcro: Content Subscription Platform 10+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D -
Transact 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
Bora Bora — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
SubscriptionFlow Add-On for Paywall — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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