Obituary Assistant
by Obituary Assistant · Uncategorized
Add and Manage obituaries on your funeral home website for free.
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Health
A 86/100
Few reviews
Active installs
200+
≈290 estimated
Momentum
+83%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Rating quality scores 55/100. Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
86 health vs 58 average across 25,736 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.4%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 45K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,764 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized 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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 11 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 6.8.12, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.17★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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
-0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
20%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| funeral | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| funeral home | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| obituaries your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| obituary your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| obituary manager your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| obituary editor your tag | #1 | #1 | — |
| online memorial your tag | #2 | #2 | 0 |
| condolences | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| memorial | #2 | #3 | 0 |
| home assistant | #3 | #9 | down 1 |
| assistant | #14 | #19 | down 1 |
| website assistant | #7 | #22 | up 2 |
| home | #23 | #23 | 0 |
| earn money online | #23 | #19 | down 1 |
| family tree | #20 | #11 | down 1 |
| pets | #22 | #20 | up 1 |
| newspaper | #24 | #19 | down 1 |
| pet | #24 | #20 | — |
| tribute | #23 | #8 | down 1 |
| site assistant | #18 | #20 | up 2 |
55 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 35 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Your five tags are all earning their place. Each gets you onto page 1 of its own search, so none is worth giving up. “earn money online”, “home” and “tribute” (#23, #23 and #23 untagged) would be the next worth testing if a slot frees up.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.8K · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
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. 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 “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3.3 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.
Install history since 19 Apr 2021
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more · development strings
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 "Add and Manage obituaries on your funeral home website for free."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 5 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 5 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Facebook, Twitter.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,472 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("obituary editor", "obituary manager", "online memorial" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2023-06-29 100+ → 200+ up after 56 days in tier
- 2023-05-04 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-05-03 100+ → 200+ up after 40 days in tier
- 2023-03-24 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2023-03-21 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2023-03-18 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-03-17 100+ → 200+ up
Competes with
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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WP Obituary Manager 80+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags C -
Make My Donation – In Memory Of Platform 20+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag -
Karma Memorials 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag -
Portale Funebre Necrologi — installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag -
Gather — installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag -
ObitMaker Lite — installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag
Embed this report card
Drop a live Pulse card for Obituary Assistant into a readme, a review or a deck. It updates itself.
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