Social Proof Popups & Real-Time Notifications – Herd Effects
by Wow-Company · Social
Also makes 20 other plugins · 94.5K+ installs across the portfolio →
Boost conversions with real-time social proof popups and user activity notifications, encouraging visitor actions on your WordPress site.
83 health vs 55 average across 1,135 Social plugins
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
258
now · peak 2.0K
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
3mo ago
latest release · v6.2.5
25
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 73% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2017-06-06 · 1,427 observations
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
Est. acquisition value
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.
Details
Known vulnerabilities
via Wordfence Intelligence6 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.
- 2023-08-21 CVE-2023-4022 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 5.2.3 Patched in 5.2.3
- Medium · 6.1 Multiple Wow-Company Plugins (Various Versions) -- Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'page' parameter ↗2023-05-22 CVE-2023-2362 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.2.1 Patched in 5.2.2
- High · 7.2 Herd Effects <= 5.2 - Local File Inclusion ↗2022-05-16 CVE-2022-29448 Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion') Affects <= 5.2 Patched in 5.2.1
Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.
CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-03-19 2K+ → 1K+ down after 209 days in tier
- 2024-08-22 3K+ → 2K+ down after 107 days in tier
- 2024-05-07 4K+ → 3K+ down after 63 days in tier
- 2024-03-05 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-03-04 4K+ → 5K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-03-03 5K+ → 4K+ down after 379 days in tier
- 2023-02-18 4K+ → 5K+ up after 119 days in tier
- 2022-10-22 3K+ → 4K+ up
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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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