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EDD Changelog

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 47/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

30+

≈37 estimated

Momentum

+20%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “easy digital downloads” and “edd” 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.

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47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 58 average across 25,739 Uncategorized plugins

30+

Active installs

≈37 estimated

3.8K

Total downloads

since 2013 · 0.8% still active

4.2/5

Rating

5.0 on wp.org · 4 reviews

+20%

67

Downloads · 30d

category median +6%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.8%

of downloads still active

At least 30 of 3.8K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 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.

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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 4 reviews

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5★
4 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
10.7y ago
Added
2013-06-27 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
4.4.34
Requires PHP
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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.

30 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3919 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 5/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.4.34; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 55/100

5.0★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.17★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 68/100

2 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3919 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+20% vs prior 30d
331 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 70 · peaks are release surges

5631 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #23,000 to #24,800, alongside the other plugins at 30+ 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

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

10.7y ago

latest release · v1.1 · 8 Feb 2016

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 8 Feb 2016

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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈37

Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 69% of the way through.

Install history since 25 Dec 2016

3031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Ruben Garcia
    10.5y ago

    Would be nice the option of adding each version as a separate entry

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  2. ★★★★★ iSaumya
    11.1y ago

    Really great plugin, keep it updated.

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  3. ★★★★★ Yudhistira Mauris
    11.8y ago

    I use EDD + Software Licensing and this plugin works perfectly with them. You only need to enter the changelog as usual in download changelog field (if you use software licensing) and it automatically show them in download page. You can modify its CSS via theme’s style CSS or plugin.

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  4. ★★★★★ isabel104
    13.3y ago

    Very useful add-on for EDD. Love it!

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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

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 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Add a new metabox to the download where you can input the changelog. The changelog will be appended to the..."
  • ! 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 Mentions Easy Digital Downloads.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,423 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text All 2 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-07-10 40+ → 30+ down after 26 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-14 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-13 40+ → 30+ down after 6 days in tier
  4. 2026-06-07 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-06-06 40+ → 30+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2026-06-04 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-06-03 40+ → 30+ down after 507 days in tier
  8. 2025-01-12 50+ → 40+ down after 32 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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