Payment Gateway Stripe for Easy Digital Downloads
by Mithun Biswas · Payments
Take credit card payments on your store using Stripe.
41 health vs 70 average across 443 Payments plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.21, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2393 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
54
now · peak 140
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.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-07-17 20+ → 10+ down after 405 days in band
- 2025-06-07 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-06-06 20+ → 10+ down after 8 days in band
- 2025-05-29 10+ → 20+ up after 265 days in band
- 2024-09-06 20+ → 10+ down after 292 days in band
- 2023-11-19 30+ → 20+ down after 35 days in band
- 2023-10-15 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-10-14 30+ → 20+ down after 3 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 Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ installs · 3.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Payment Plugins for Stripe WooCommerce 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Stripe Payment Forms by WP Full Pay – Accept Credit Card Payments, Donations & Subscriptions 9K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A -
Contact Form 7 – PayPal & Stripe Add-on 7K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A -
WP Stripe Checkout 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
Payment Plugins for Stripe Elementor – by Pay Addons 100+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
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