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Dummy Gateway for WooCommerce

by vladopajic · eCommerce

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Dummy payment gateway plugin for WooCommerce used for testing checkout process.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 68 average across 5,562 eCommerce plugins

100+

Active installs

≈180 estimated

72.5K

Total downloads

since 2016

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+27%

190

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30, well behind 6.8.

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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 7/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3595 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

+27% vs prior 30d
10Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

190

now · peak 64.0K

19030d 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

Dummy Gateway for Wo · #15122 you Payment Gateway Base · #1048 WooCommerce Tax (for · #115 Brazilian Market on · #631

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.

1.9Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

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

9.8y ago

latest release · v1.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0 · 9.8y ago

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 “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈180

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2019-12-14 · 1,386 observations

100Installs · 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.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
9.8y ago
Added
2016-10-28 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.6.30
Requires PHP
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 2 reviews to 2017-01-21
Positive PraiseFeature requests

Both reviewers say it does exactly what a test gateway should, with one asking for a success/failure toggle for testing.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ TIV.NET INC.
    9.6y ago

    Thanks for publishing this. Took me less time than finding my own version in the archives 🙂 Suggestion: make a “success/failure” setting for testing.

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  2. ★★★★★ Jeremy Dawes
    9.8y ago

    Does exactly what you would expect. Test a checkout without having to reverse transactions etc. Thank you to Marcus and John at WP Plugins A2Z for the heads up on this its really quite useful.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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

  1. 2025-10-30 200+ → 100+ down after 30 days in tier
  2. 2025-09-30 100+ → 200+ up

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