GoCardless WordPress plugin
by DHaywoodSmith · Payments
Create GoCardless subscriptions within WordPress.
41 health vs 66 average across 758 Payments 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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.2, 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 5194 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
25
now · peak 73
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 “40+”. 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
- 2025-07-26 50+ → 40+ down after 98 days in tier
- 2025-04-19 60+ → 50+ down after 135 days in tier
- 2024-12-05 50+ → 60+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-12-03 60+ → 50+ down after 113 days in tier
- 2024-08-12 70+ → 60+ down after 65 days in tier
- 2024-06-08 80+ → 70+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2024-06-03 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-06-02 80+ → 70+ down after 43 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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SureCart – Ecommerce Made Easy For Selling Physical Products, Digital Downloads, Subscriptions, Donations, & Payments 80K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
FluentCart A New Era of eCommerce – Faster, Lighter, and Simpler 7K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Airwallex Online Payments Gateway 4K+ installs · 3.3★ · 2 shared tags B -
Mollie Forms 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
GoCardless for WooCommerce 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Flexible Subscriptions 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
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