eCards Lite – Christmas, Birthday & Thank-You E-Cards
by Ciprian Popescu · Uncategorized
Also makes 8 other plugins · 2.7K+ installs across the portfolio →
Let visitors send Christmas, birthday or thank-you e-cards from your Media Library, with spam protection.
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Health
B 84/100
Few reviews
Active installs
90+
≈98 estimated
Momentum
+8%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: Rating quality scores 57/100. Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.7%
of downloads still active
At least 90 of 12.1K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,778 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized 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 3 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 25 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
4.3★ over 6 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.1★ 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.
40
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 23d
25%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 23d
-0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| birthday card your tag | #1 | #2 | up 1 |
| greeting card your tag | #2 | #4 | 0 |
| ecards your tag | #2 | #2 | 0 |
| ecard your tag | #3 | #3 | — |
| christmas card your tag | #4 | #11 | up 1 |
| christmas | #6 | #15 | up 1 |
| birthday | #9 | #21 | down 1 |
| thank you | #16 | #21 | 0 |
| greeting cards | #8 | #12 | 0 |
| send birthday email | #22 | #22 | down 1 |
21 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 10 listed. 11 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Your five tags are all earning their place. Each gets you onto page 1 of its own search, so none is worth giving up. “christmas” and “thank you” (#6 and #16 untagged) would be the next worth testing if a slot frees up.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 461 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #16,800 to #17,400, alongside the other plugins at 90+ 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.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
3
releases in the last 12 months
25d ago
latest release · v4.4.0 · 9 Oct 2026
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 “90+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band yesterday and the previous band took 10.8 years to cross, so the real count is still just under 100.
Install history since 14 Aug 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Ciprian Popescu10.2y ago
Compatible with the latest WordPress version and ready to translate using WordPress.org translation feature.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Kimbert10.8y ago
I paid for the e card version and it advertised paid support for 1 year. It was impossible to get support on this paid for plug in and by consequence I had to sweat thru all the steps and got my version in late for Xmas !!! very disappointed K Imbert
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ TrogsWorld11.3y ago
Great plugin, flexible, customizable and fits our needs. Highly recommended.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ voces11.3y ago
great plugin, fits my current needs
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ jackwoodhams11.3y ago
a great, versatile plugin! Recommended.
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 3 languages, 1 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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
7 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Let visitors send Christmas, birthday or thank-you e-cards from your Media Library, with spam protection."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("use this", "if you have").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gravity Forms.
- ✓ Headings and lists 3 headings and 4 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,784 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("birthday card", "Christmas Card", "greeting card" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-11-02 100+ → 90+ down after 3927 days in tier
- 2016-02-01 30+ → 100+ up after 92 days in tier
- 2015-11-01 40+ → 30+ down
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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