EDD Downloads As Services
by Andrew Munro / AffiliateWP · Uncategorized
Mark Downloads As Services in Easy Digital Downloads
46 health vs 56 average across 10,647 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.17.
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 2019 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
52
now · peak 121
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-07-01 300+ → 200+ down after 16 days in band
- 2025-06-15 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
- 2025-06-13 300+ → 200+ down after 202 days in band
- 2024-11-23 400+ → 300+ down after 175 days in band
- 2024-06-01 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-05-31 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in band
- 2024-05-28 500+ → 400+ down after 73 days in band
- 2024-03-16 600+ → 500+ down after 9 days in band
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 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
- E EDD List File Names 40+ installs · 4.1★ · 4 shared tags D
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