ELM: Make Simple Membership Sites Minus the Headache
by Ristretto Apps · Education
eLearning + Membership Features in an All-In-One Easy to Use Plugin
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
—
not reported yet
Momentum
-41%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “elearning”, “lms” and “membership” 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.
45 health vs 69 average across 280 Education 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24.
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2269 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2269 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ecourse your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| elearning your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| lms your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| membership your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| memberships your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “elearning”, “lms” and “membership” 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.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 2.1K · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #49,700 to #68,000, alongside the other plugins with fewer than 10 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 yearHow 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
6.2y ago
latest release · v1.2 · 14 Aug 2020
3
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
Estimated active installs
wp.org publishes an install count once a plugin has enough of them. This one has none yet.
wp.org reports no install count for this plugin yet.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ atypicalalyssa6.9y ago
We have a team intranet site that we use internally and didn’t want to spend money and time with setting up some overly complicated membership plugin. This plugin is about as easy as they come when it comes to making a membership site. I’ve used a bunch of the big name membership plugins for WordPress, and I have to say that this was the easiest to set and get started with. It’s perfect for our simple company needs! The only thing it’s missing is PayPal integration so that we can take signups on the frontend of our websites if we decide to use this for some of our other membership projects. Right now it seems to only have a shortcode for putting a simple registration form on the frontend but for free memberships only. Hoping they’ll build something for taking payments soon! This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by atypicalalyssa.
Read on wp.org ↗
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
3 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you want"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gutenberg, Gravity Forms, Stripe, PayPal and 1 more.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,948 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "ecourse", "memberships" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
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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Paid Membership Plugin, Ecommerce, User Registration Form, Login Form, User Profile & Restrict Content – ProfilePress 100K+ installs · 3.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Tutor LMS – eLearning and online course solution 100K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags B -
LearnPress – WordPress LMS Plugin for Create and Sell Online Courses 70K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B -
Simple Membership 40K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Tutor LMS Elementor Addons 30K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
Uncanny Toolkit for LearnDash 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
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