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Look Inside PDF

by Kapil Paul · Uncategorized

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Look Inside a pdf book to read or book sample to read

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

10+

Active installs

≈19 estimated

1.3K

Total downloads

since 2020

3.84★

Rating (adjusted)

3.5★ raw · 2 reviews

+39%

25

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.20.

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

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 22/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2112 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+39% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

25

now · peak 55

2530d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

32.1KRank · Jul 26

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.5Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

2.5Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

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

0

releases in the last 12 months

5.8y ago

latest release · v1.0.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.0 · 5.8y ago

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 “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations

10Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
1 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
5.8y ago
Added
2020-11-18 · 5 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
5.5.20
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ shakhawatsaalehin
    3.6y ago

    I setup the plugin according to the video you provided. I have selected the image from the product. It shows a ‘Read More’ button, but no popup PDF. It’s not working for me.

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  2. ★★★★★ marius01
    5.6y ago

    Very good plugins. For the desktop version it needs a little improvement: 1) Zoom + / – button, so that the pages of a book can be seen better. It’s perfect for the mobile version. Thank you.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.6.1

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-10-22 20+ → 10+ down after 36 days in tier
  2. 2024-09-16 10+ → 20+ up after 29 days in tier
  3. 2024-08-18 20+ → 10+ down after 6 days in tier
  4. 2024-08-12 10+ → 20+ up after 10 days in tier
  5. 2024-08-02 20+ → 10+ down after 319 days in tier
  6. 2023-09-18 10+ → 20+ up after 26 days in tier
  7. 2023-08-23 20+ → 10+ down after 5 days in tier
  8. 2023-08-18 10+ → 20+ up after 27 days in tier

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