hRecipe
by Dave Doolin · SEO
Use hRecipe for creating Google Rich Snippets, for leveraging SEO results, and for attractively displaying your recipes.
45 health vs 69 average across 305 SEO 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 3.3.2, 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 5348 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
55
now · peak 93
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 “70+”. 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-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-04-09 80+ → 70+ down after 3 days in band
- 2026-04-06 70+ → 80+ up after 14 days in band
- 2026-03-23 80+ → 70+ down after 13 days in band
- 2026-03-10 70+ → 80+ up after 19 days in band
- 2026-02-19 80+ → 70+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-02-17 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-16 80+ → 70+ down after 4 days in band
- 2026-02-12 70+ → 80+ up after 1 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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WP Recipe Maker 50K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Recipe Card Blocks Lite 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Cooked – Recipe Management 3K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
Qcart 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D -
Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder 10M+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
Classic Editor 9M+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag B
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