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Optinly – Exit Intent, Newsletter Popups, Gamification & Opt-in Forms

by optinlyhq · Email & Marketing

Also makes 2 other plugins · 730+ installs across the portfolio →

Capture more leads & increase conversions with Optinly. Use 75+ templates and advanced triggering options to create highly converting popup campaigns!

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
54 Health · D
Maintenance 23/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

54 health vs 63 average across 1,297 Email & Marketing plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

66 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 32/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 71/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 774 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+44% vs prior 30d
13Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

180

now · peak 1.9K

17630d downloads · Aug 26

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

Optinly · #7786 you Popup Builder & Popu · #55 Popup Maker · #90 Hustle · #499

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.3Stars · Aug 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.

251per 1k installs · Aug 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

2.9y ago

latest release · v1.0.17

14

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.17 · 2.9y ago1.0.16 · 3.6y ago1.0.15 · 3.7y ago1.0.11.1 · 3.9y ago1.0.11 · 4.4y ago1.0.10 · 4.4y ago1.0.9 · 4.8y ago1.0.8 · 5.4y ago1.0.7 · 5.4y ago1.0.6 · 5.5y ago1.0.5 · 5.6y ago1.0.4 · 5.8y ago1.0.3 · 6.0y ago1.0.2 · 6.2y 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “700+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
700–800 ≈750

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

Install history · since 2022-08-09 · 1,422 observations

700Installs · Aug 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
1.0.20
Last updated
2.1y ago
Added
2020-06-23 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6.1
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP
7.2

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

3 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2024-06-21 CVE-2024-37220 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.18 Patched in 1.0.19
  2. 2022-10-12 CVE-2022-41647 Missing Authorization Affects <= 1.0.18 Patched in 1.0.19
  3. 2022-10-12 CVE-2022-41134 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.0.15 Patched in 1.0.16

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 Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.5

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

  1. 2026-08-16 800+ → 700+ down after 4 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-12 700+ → 800+ up after 3 days in tier
  3. 2026-08-09 800+ → 700+ down after 126 days in tier
  4. 2026-04-05 900+ → 800+ down after 96 days in tier
  5. 2025-12-30 1K+ → 900+ down

Competes with

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Optinly – Exit Intent, Newsletter Popups, Gamification & Opt-in Forms: 700+ active installs, 4.3★ (16 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/optinly