Payment Pro (Direct Payment + Hosted) – PayPal
by Tomer Grassiani · Payments
Accept Credit card payments using PayPal directly on your WooCommerce shop, and issue refunds.
45 health vs 65 average across 1,029 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 2003 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
140
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
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “—”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
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 -
Payment Gateway for PayPal Pro & PayPal Checkout for WooCommerce 2K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Receive customer payments on Woocommerce 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags C
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