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Pelcro: Content Subscription Platform

by pelcro · Membership

The #1 Content Subscription Platform. All the tools you need to drive subscription revenue from your audience. Setup a membership paywall in minutes.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 72/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 69 average across 179 Membership plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.30, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 9/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3058 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+3% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

31

now · peak 2.2K

3130d 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

Pelcro: Content Subs · #35618 you codoc · #4662 User Registration & · #716 Paid Membership Subs · #1469

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.

3.1Kper 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

8.4y ago

latest release · v3.0.4

25

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.0.4 · 8.4y ago3.0.3 · 8.4y ago3.0.2 · 9.2y ago3.0.1 · 9.2y ago2.5.1 · 9.2y ago2.6.0 · 9.2y ago3.0.0 · 9.4y ago2.5.0 · 9.8y ago2.4.0 · 9.9y ago2.3.0 · 9.9y ago2.2.0 · 9.9y ago2.1.2 · 10.0y ago2.1.1 · 10.0y ago2.1.0 · 10.0y ago

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈16

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

Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,382 observations

10Installs · 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
3.0.4
Last updated
8.4y ago
Added
2016-05-17 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.8.30
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. verasoul
    10.1y ago

    Ive been checking it up for a while, and just when I was trying to seeting it, realized that you must register on their site to use this free version for 14 days. Well, it looks it work great but a free version for 14 days is not free at all. The Settings of the plugin are not well explained and because of these two things Im giving just 3 stars. In the future will check again hopping that 14 days will change to forever, keeeping the minimum options of course.

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  2. mtlnewtech
    10.3y ago

    This service gives adblock users the option to either remove adblock or pay per page view. It seems to work great, started to get paid by the company who created the plugin. They transfer revenue collected every month in a timely manner. Their stats are also very insightful, definitely recommend users to try it out. Its easy to use, setup and customize everything from the design of the popup to all the copy displayed in the popup. They also have a few customizable options, you can decide wether user can close popup or not, how long till the ad block users gets a popup and many more. I recommend it to anyone who relies on ads as a source of revenue for their site.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

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