Payment Advanced – PayPal
by Tomer Grassiani · Payments
Accept Credit card payments using PayPal Advanced directly on your WooCommerce shop, and issue refunds.
45 health vs 68 average across 636 Payments plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.18.
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 1997 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
139
now · peak 146
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-10-20 20+ → 10+ down after 27 days in band
- 2024-09-23 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-09-22 20+ → 10+ down after 11 days in band
- 2024-09-11 10+ → 20+ up after 3 days in band
- 2024-09-08 20+ → 10+ down after 18 days in band
- 2024-08-21 10+ → 20+ up after 5 days in band
- 2024-08-16 20+ → 10+ down after 534 days in band
- 2023-03-01 10+ → 20+ up after 28 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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WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
PayPal Enterprise Payments (formerly Braintree) for WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 2.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
Contact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on 7K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A -
Payment forms, Buy now buttons, and Invoicing System | GetPaid 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Receive customer payments on Woocommerce 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags C -
Quick Paypal Payments 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B
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