Ninja Shop – The Quickest Way to Start Selling
by Kevin Stover · eCommerce
Ninja Shop is an easy to use eCommerce plugin, the quickest way to start selling your products with WordPress.
44 health vs 70 average across 2,692 eCommerce plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.24, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2409 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
34
now · peak 65
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
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-12-24 30+ → 20+ down after 11 days in band
- 2024-12-13 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-12-11 30+ → 20+ down after 134 days in band
- 2024-07-30 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-07-29 30+ → 40+ up after 5 days in band
- 2024-07-24 40+ → 30+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-07-22 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-07-21 40+ → 30+ down after 2 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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External Product New Tab for WooCommerce 4K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags A -
Shopping Cart & eCommerce Store 3K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A -
WC Pickup Store 2K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags B -
Klarna for WooCommerce 30K+ installs · 2.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
Ecwid by Lightspeed Ecommerce Shopping Cart 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
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