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WP Options Importer

by Matthew Boynes · Content & Feeds

Also makes 7 other plugins · 7.0K+ installs across the portfolio →

Export and import WordPress Options.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
49 Health · D
Maintenance 6/100
Rating quality 84/100
Support 70/100

49 health vs 60 average across 779 Content & Feeds plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.12.

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.

53 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 12/100
WP compatibility 46/100
Rating quality 63/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1275 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

-5% vs prior 30d
13Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

894

now · peak 2.9K

90230d 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

WP Options Importer · #2742 you Widget Importer & Ex · #257 Customizer Export/Im · #301 WP Import Export Lit · #841

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.9Stars · 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.

150per 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

3.5y ago

latest release · v7

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

7 · 3.5y ago5 · 12.3y ago4 · 12.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 46% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v7 46%
v5 39%
v6 15%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “6K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
6K–7K ≈6.5K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-09-19 · 1,433 observations

6KInstalls · 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
7
Last updated
3.5y ago
Added
2014-04-21 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
6.1.12
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. wong
    5.9y ago

    Works well with the latest 5.5.1, import all necessary information, also able to choose which options to be import.

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  2. Jon
    5.9y ago

    Best ever! Old but still works great!

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  3. mkonji
    7.1y ago

    Still working great – thanks for this!

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  4. Rastislav Lamos
    11.4y ago

    Hello. Really handy plugin. It exports WordPress settings and then you can import them selectively or all. Source code is very clean. However, WP-CLI support is missing. If it was present, I could automate the export/import process on each web application release.

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  5. niko
    11.6y ago

    This plugin restore all the setting and fast.

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  6. shaeirving1
    11.7y ago

    Excellent plugin, has helped our business in many ways

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  7. Hyyan Abo Fakher
    11.8y ago

    It is really great plugin and it does its job very well , thanks

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  8. ip11166
    11.9y ago

    Updated: Plugin works as expected and in general is a great idea! It however needs more attention to the exception handling (e.g. pop-up screen disabled) and interface that would in a more explicit way warn the user about the consequences of using “import All” option (e.g. that it will replace site url and deactivate all themes if the theme is not installed in the importing site). Author mentioned about pop-up window, but in our case it looks like the pop up did not show (maybe due to the use of pop-up blocking software), so our tester did not see the pop-up after choosing “All” option. One way to address this, would be to create a special choice (separate from “All”) to import exporting site url options E.g. have two choices: “All with changing siteurl” and “All without changing siteurl” or simply make a choice of changing siteurl a separate option highlighted in red with a note about consequences. Thank you for your good work and suggestions, we wish you success, Matt! Art http://webdesignartshop.com Also, we wish to highlight great support for the plugin by Matt, who immediately contacted our representative with offer to help and sent further clarifications. As soon as the future version of the plugin in some way address the issue we mentioned, we will be willing to give the plugin 5 star rating.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.1.1

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. 2026-06-14 7K+ → 6K+ down after 205 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-21 8K+ → 7K+ down after 357 days in tier
  3. 2024-11-29 9K+ → 8K+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-27 8K+ → 9K+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2024-11-25 9K+ → 8K+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-11-24 8K+ → 9K+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2024-11-22 9K+ → 8K+ down after 523 days in tier
  8. 2023-06-18 10K+ → 9K+ down after 131 days in tier

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