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MakeStories (for Google Web Stories)

by Pratik Ghela · Uncategorized

MakeStories helper plugin to publish stories for your WordPress site

How scoring works →
85 Health · A
Maintenance 100
Rating quality 79
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+137%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

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 “600+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
600–700 ≈670

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

Install trend · reconstructed from 1381 daily snapshots

Details

Version
3.0.5
Last updated
7d ago
Added
2018-11-30
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
6.9.4
Requires PHP
5.6

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-06 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in band
  2. 2026-05-05 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in band
  3. 2026-05-04 700+ → 600+ down after 82 days in band
  4. 2026-02-11 800+ → 700+ down after 63 days in band
  5. 2025-12-10 900+ → 800+ down after 53 days in band
  6. 2025-10-18 1K+ → 900+ down after 394 days in band
  7. 2024-09-19 2K+ → 1K+ down after 153 days in band
  8. 2024-04-19 3K+ → 2K+ down after 93 days in band

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MakeStories (for Google Web Stories): 600+ active installs, 4.3★ (28 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/makestories-helper