Hypothesis

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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.

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14 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 6 listed. 8 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ 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.

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 21 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ comunicacionabierta

   2.6y ago

   Hypothesis is one of those technologies that understand what the web is all about. This plugin for WordPress makes easy for everyone to get to know the project. It works neat. Thanks!

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2. ★★★★★ suchurchill

   7.4y ago

   Although this plugin appears not to have been updated, it’s because it’s simple code still works efficiently and well. This is a great tool for group annotation and public peer review, and the technical support from Hypothes.is is top notch! Great plugin created and maintained by great people!

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3. ★★★★★ Nate Angell

   8.3y ago

   While it’s relatively easy to add open-source, standards-based Hypothesis annotation to any website by adding just a line of code, this plugin makes it even easier and enables some basic configuration controls such as limiting annotation to just post or page types, excluding annotation on the home page, blog page, or specific posts/pages, highlights on by default, sidebar open by default, etc. I agree it would be nice if the plugin supported custom content types beyond WP’s standard pages and posts.

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4. ★★★★★ jpolka

   8.7y ago

   Very simple to install, and I appreciate the options to customize when the sidebar is displayed! One thing I’d love to request are shortcodes to open the sidebar, akin to the “Annotations” buttons eLife has implemented (example here: https://elifesciences.org/articles/33220) This would help make the tool and any existing annotations more visible.

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5. ★★★★★ trevorNanders

   10.7y ago

   Works perfectly. No problems installing it. interface and integration are great. The only Decent annotator plugin available IMO. One thing that would make it perfect: allowing full integration in the wordpress install with annotations stored in the database and users being able to annotate once logged in to the wordpress powered website. This is the only real downside that each user/visitor to my website has to register and login to hypothes.is in order to see and use the feature. Still, a fantastic plugin.

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6. ★★★★★ kokdemir

   11.0y ago

   That is a fantastic idea, I wish there were to be a wp user integration that syncs with hypotesis database. This is a great feature for membership sites!

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7. ★★★★★ Peter Baumgartner

   11.2y ago

   I just installed and tested it. It worked! But I wonder, why limiting it to posts and pages? I would have needed it for another content type (Namaste lesson) so that studends could make annotations. So I had to use the other – more generic format – of a javascipt snippet and to put this code line in every namaste lesson. I’m sure there would be another, easier workaround, but I’m no programmer. So please make this nice plugin more generic and working with all kind of WP content types.

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-02-04 300+ → 200+ down after 165 days in tier
2. 2024-08-23 200+ → 300+ up after 19 days in tier
3. 2024-08-04 300+ → 200+ down after 45 days in tier
4. 2024-06-20 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2024-06-19 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
6. 2024-06-17 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-06-16 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-06-15 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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Hypothesis: 200+ active installs, 4.9★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/hypothesis