MyBookTable Bookstore by Stormhill Media
by zookatron · eCommerce
Also makes 1 other plugin · 1K+ installs across the portfolio →
A WordPress Bookstore Plugin to help authors boost book sales on sites like Amazon and Apple iBooks with great-looking book pages.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
B 73/100
Open vulnerability
Active installs
1K+
≈1.7K estimated
Momentum
-7%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Slipping on “books”. Down 8 places since 2026-10-03, now #23. Check what shipped around then, and what moved above you.
73 health vs 71 average across 9,745 eCommerce plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.6%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 163.1K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,141 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other eCommerce plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Details
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.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Support resolution
Updated 91 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11, the current branch or newer
3.8★ over 41 reviews, smoothed to 3.96★
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
0 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
To rank higher: Mark more forum threads resolved — the resolved ratio feeds the ranking.
Get the full rank-higher report →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.
39
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.4
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
20%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
+0.5
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bookstore | #1 | #2 | 0 |
| books your tag | #23 | #23 | down 8 |
| media book | #13 | #20 | 0 |
| author plugin your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| book your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| ecommerce your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
57 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 54 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Slipping on “books”. Down 8 places since 2026-10-03, now #23. Check what shipped around then, and what moved above you.
- “author plugin”, “book” and “ecommerce” 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.
- Already on top for “bookstore”. #1 without listing it. A tag would change little there; your slots are better spent on a search you don't yet win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 4.9K · peaks are release surges
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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 77% 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.
Crossed into this band 9 months ago; the previous band took 3 years to cross, which places it about 75% of the way through.
Install history since 12 Sep 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Karen Lewis1.5y ago
This was a good plugin at one time. It appears to have been abandoned. No updates or ticket responses in 5+ months. I have a client whose site continues to break with every WP update. I’m about to abandon this plugin on her site and recommend anyone looking at it read through some of the help tickets first. No answers to be found.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ CraigD7772.1y ago
I bought both MyBookTable Bookstore and the Professional Upgrade 3.0. These worked for a time. When I updated my website to the Divi theme, I kept getting an error message Invalid License Key despite entering this key in several times. No workaround for this yet, and this has been raised a year previously.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ anghara12.8y ago
my site went into “critical failure” because of an update that won’t go through and this has happened multiple times. I have had no recourse to a workaround on this and if there is a bug fix i haven’t been able to find one. in the meantime my site has lost a whole lot of functionality – when it is up at all. Not impressed.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ HarroldP4.4y ago
I am a user of this plugin for years. I also paid for the professional upgrade. Unfortunately the plugin isn’t updated that often, and with all the WordPress developments it can use an upgrade again. For example, php 8 is still not supported. My whole website is based on this plugin, so switching would be a nightmare, but I consider it.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ poetrybookauthor6.4y ago
EDIT: This plugin crashed my website in 2024. I had to uninstall the premium version because it was the problem. Then the WordFence security plugin told me this plugin is vulnerable to hacking due to Stored Cross-Site Scripting, so I had to uninstall the entire thing undoing hours of work building landing pages. Don’t download! Below is my previous positive review from 2020: I am an author of over a dozen books. I use the professional MyBookTable plugin, and find it worth the price. Overall I find it to be incredibly useful and an invaluable part of my website. I like the ability to add my book descriptions easily to individual blog posts, and to aggregate a list of online retailers for my book. There are two areas where the plugin could be improved in the future: A) Make the book cover the post’s automatic featured image. Currently, it defaults to the site’s default image instead. Under Screen Options there is no way to add a featured image to a book, so the post thumbnail is not the book cover. I’ve worked around this for social media by installing Social Rocket for the time being. B) For accessibility reasons I use a tablet to design my site, and currently, adding book links to other retailers must be done on a desktop or laptop computer, and trying to do so on a tablet, the field where you paste your book’s link is greyed out, so I always have to switch gears and use a computer. This topic was modified 3 months ago by poetrybookauthor. Reason: Plugin crashed my website
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ stormgrayson6.9y ago
Love this plugin as it is the only one of its kind that actually works for my sites. Will it be updated soon to be able to continue without problems running on my site. It has not been updated in a while.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ yolgabs7.0y ago
I purchased the pro version to quickly populate my books database using the ISBN lookup feature. It does not work. If I have to copy and paste all the books data individually, I may as well create a template that will be better designed than the ones offered by default. The Amazon affiliate program somewhat facilitates this process but the advertised ISBN lookup feature would have been a real treat. Support promises tickets will be answered quickly however, some of them have been open for months. Will try to get a refund directly from my credit card company. This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by yolgabs.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ judithhlopez597.2y ago
Selling books online never was so easy!
Read on wp.org ↗
Security history
via Wordfence Intelligence2 open vulnerabilities affect the current version (3.6.5). 6 of 8 disclosed are patched.
- Open Medium · 6.4 MyBookTable Bookstore <= 3.6.0 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗2026-02-01 CVE-2026-39604 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.6.0 No patch available
- Open Medium · 6.4 MyBookTable Bookstore <= 3.5.6 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗2025-12-31 CVE-2025-62743 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.5.6 No patch available
- Patched Medium · 6.4 MyBookTable Bookstore <= 3.3.7 - Authenticated (Author+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗2024-03-25 CVE-2024-29772 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.3.7 Patched in 3.3.8
- 2019-07-03 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.2.2 Patched in 3.2.3
- 2015-09-21 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 2.1.4 Patched in 2.1.5
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 7.0.1
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 59 languages, 1 at 90% or more
Plus 35 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
5 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "A WordPress Bookstore Plugin to help authors boost book sales on sites like Amazon and Apple iBooks with gr..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Yoast, Mailchimp, Facebook, Twitter.
- ✓ Headings and lists 32 headings and 2 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 8,446 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "author plugin", "ecommerce" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-29 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1093 days in tier
- 2023-02-01 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-01-31 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-01-29 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-01-28 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-01-27 3K+ → 2K+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2023-01-25 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-01-23 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
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