Gleam: Run Competitions on Your WordPress Blog
by stuartmck · Social
An amazing solution to run competitions on your blog using combinations of social actions.
42 health vs 67 average across 289 Social 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 4.9.29, 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 2977 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
105
now · peak 209
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 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-02-27 300+ → 200+ down after 374 days in band
- 2024-02-19 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-02-18 300+ → 400+ up after 7 days in band
- 2024-02-11 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-02-09 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-02-07 400+ → 300+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Social Media Widget 30K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D -
Iframely – WP media embeds, cards and blocks 2K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags C -
Curator.io 2K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B - S Social Media Icons Widget 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags D
- F Fastershare 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
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Nextend Social Login and Register 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A
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