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My Google Books Library

by hugmin42 · Uncategorized

A simple plugin with a widget and [shortcode] that displays any number of your Google Books bookshelves including custom made bookshelves.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized plugins

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, well behind 6.8.

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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4926 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+47% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

28

now · peak 45

2830d downloads · Sep 26

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

35.6KRank · Jun 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.

2.8Kper 1k installs · Sep 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

13.5y ago

latest release · v1.2

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2 · 13.5y ago1.1 · 13.5y ago1.0.1 · 13.6y 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈16

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,359 observations

10Installs · Sep 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.

Details

Version
1.2
Last updated
13.5y ago
Added
2012-12-20 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Darrell-Ulm
    9.3y ago

    Another Google Books module or in this case a plug-in is a good thing. I’ll need to look at the code and see if there is any crossover of code I can use.

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  2. verticalslicer
    12.7y ago

    Formatting options would be a great addition to this plug-in: – The ability to have control over the size of the rendered book covers – The ability to set the number of rows and columns of book covers (currently it’s just one column)

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  3. gold2008
    13.6y ago

    It is very easy to use and works well. @pluginauthor: Please add more features such as formatting the layout to make it even better.

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  4. nelblossom
    13.7y ago

    I’ve wanted to be able to easily share different bookshelves with my readers for quiet some time. Some plugins use amazon’s api, but their books aren’t comprehensive and international. With this plugin I can use google books which is very easy to manage and then just add any or all of my bookshelves onto any page or post with easy shortcode.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4

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

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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My Google Books Library: 10+ active installs, 4.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/my-google-books-library