Easy Digital Downloads – Empty Cart
by Sean Davis · eCommerce
Easily add content to the empty cart display in Easy Digital Downloads.
45 health vs 68 average across 3,943 eCommerce plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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.
- 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3674 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
24
now · peak 87
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “80+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,370 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-04-13 90+ → 80+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-04-10 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-04-09 90+ → 80+ down after 25 days in tier
- 2026-03-15 80+ → 90+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-03-13 90+ → 80+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-03-10 80+ → 90+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-03-08 90+ → 80+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2026-02-22 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in tier
Competes with
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