Invitations for Slack

by rheinardkorf · Uncategorized

Also makes 3 other plugins · 50+ installs across the portfolio →

Build a Slack community by allowing your visitors (or registered users) to invite themselves to your Slack team.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 44/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

20+

≈27 estimated

Momentum

-38%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “community”, “invitations” and “invites” 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.

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How scoring works →

44 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 71/100

Support 70/100

44 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

6.3K

Total downloads

since 2016 · 0.3% still active

3.9/5

Rating

3.8 on wp.org · 6 reviews

-38%

Downloads · 30d

category median +8%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.3%

of downloads still active

At least 20 of 6.3K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,764 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 6 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0.2
Last updated: 10.8y ago
Added: 2016-01-27 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP: 4.4
Tested up to: 4.4.34
Requires PHP: —

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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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3928 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 5/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.4.34; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 57/100

3.8★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 4.07★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3928 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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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
community your tag	Not in the top 24
invitations your tag	Not in the top 24
invites your tag	Not in the top 24
join your tag	Not in the top 24
slack your tag	Not in the top 24

0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

What to do about it

“community”, “invitations” and “invites” 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

-38% vs prior 30d

030 Oct 2026

20096-8

030 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.7K · peaks are release surges

4630 Oct 2026

2K1K0

4630 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #25,300 to #28,300, alongside the other plugins at 20+ 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.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.830 Oct 2026

52.50

3.830 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.

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

20–30 ≈27

Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 65% of the way through.

Install history since 10 Jul 2017

2030 Oct 2026

2001000

2030 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

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★★★★★ poetic824
9.4y ago

Nice Plugin, made things a lot easier for me. The UI is nice as well. Thanks for this!
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★★★★★ Jenni McKinnon
9.4y ago

This plugin is great and it works as expected when you use Slack’s legacy token API: https://api.slack.com/custom-integrations/legacy-tokens Just a hint for other users who can’t get it to work. I was able to figure it out so I thought I’d pass on the link to the API this plugin uses. Thanks for a great plugin! It’s exactly what I need. 🙂
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★★★★★ cjeys
9.6y ago

Well everything is okay, thank you!
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★★★★★ Anthony Hortin
9.8y ago

Plugin doesn’t work unfortunately. Have raised several issues in the support forum and still no response after months. This topic was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by Anthony Hortin.
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★★★★★ grungyape
10.4y ago

While the author is not responsible for Slack itself, having at least basic instructions on how to obtain a proper Slack Token would result in a much higher rating. Currently it works with a Test token, but that’s not a proper setup.
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★★★★★ todbot
10.8y ago

This plugin does exactly what it says and seems to work well. I had some issues with it’s CSS in widgets and a minor issue with default channels, but @rheinardkorf responded quickly and pushed updates to both issues in a short time. Thanks!
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ Low memory footprint

✓ Low page-speed impact

✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP

✕ No PHP errors

✓ No JS errors

✓ Activates cleanly

✓ No resource errors

✓ No external HTTP errors

✓ Optimized database use

✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 58 languages, 3 at 90% or more · development strings

Afrikaans 100%

German 100%

Swedish 100%

Chinese (China) 8%

English (Canada) 8%

Hebrew 8%

Italian 8%

Polish 8%

Albanian 5%

Arabic 5%

Bulgarian 5%

Catalan 5%

Czech 5%

Danish 5%

Dutch 5%

English (UK) 5%

Finnish 5%

French (France) 5%

German (Formal) 5%

Greek 5%

Hungarian 5%

Indonesian 5%

Japanese 5%

Korean 5%

Plus 34 more locales with partial translations.

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

4 of 8 pass · checked 25 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

✓ Says what it does "Build a Slack community by allowing your visitors (or registered users) to invite themselves to your Slack..."
! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
✓ Names what it works with Mentions Slack, REST API.
✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 3 lists.
! Enough to quote 677 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "invites" does not.

Growth timeline

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

2026-06-27 30+ → 20+ down after 13 days in tier
2026-06-14 20+ → 30+ up after 3 days in tier
2026-06-11 30+ → 20+ down after 17 days in tier
2026-05-25 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
2026-05-23 30+ → 20+ down after 285 days in tier
2025-08-11 20+ → 30+ up after 31 days in tier
2025-07-11 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in tier
2025-07-10 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier

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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Invitations for Slack: 20+ active installs, 3.8★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/invitations-for-slack

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