Easy Digital Downloads – Coming Soon
by Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP · Uncategorized
Allows Coming Soon or Custom Status text instead of normal pricing for downloads in Easy Digital Downloads.
45 health vs 56 average across 11,793 Uncategorized 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.28, 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 3223 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
31
now · peak 90
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-29 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2026-01-24 100+ → 200+ up after 8 days in tier
- 2026-01-16 200+ → 100+ down after 15 days in tier
- 2026-01-01 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-12-31 200+ → 100+ down after 20 days in tier
- 2025-12-11 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-12-10 200+ → 100+ down after 836 days in tier
- 2023-08-27 300+ → 200+ down after 6 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Easy Digital Downloads Featured Downloads 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags B -
EDD Auto Register 900+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags C - E EDD Downloads As Services 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 4 shared tags D
- E EDD Download Images 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags D
- E EDD Favorites 90+ installs · 3.7★ · 4 shared tags D
- E EDD Purchase Rewards 60+ installs · 4.2★ · 4 shared tags D
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