PG Simple Affiliate Shop
by PeoplesGeek · Email & Marketing
Also makes 2 other plugins · 190+ installs across the portfolio →
Create a simple and attractive store for your affiliate products and banner advertisements. Easily manage the products you promote.
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Health
D 48/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
90+
≈100 estimated
Momentum
+50%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “affiliate marketing”, “affiliate product management” and “affiliate shop” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
48 health vs 66 average across 2,122 Email & Marketing plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.2%
of downloads still active
At least 90 of 38.5K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Email & Marketing plugin keeps 0.9%, across 1,295 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Email & Marketing plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 5.6.23.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2049 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.6.23; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 9 reviews, smoothed to 4.24★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2049 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
32
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.8
Velocity
places per keyword, 10d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 10d
+0.8
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| affiliate marketing your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| affiliate product management your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| affiliate shop your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| affiliate store your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| simple affiliate page your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
7 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 7 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “affiliate marketing”, “affiliate product management” and “affiliate shop” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 82 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #16,800 to #17,400, alongside the other plugins at 90+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
5.6y ago
latest release · v1.5 · 24 Mar 2021
10
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “90+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 20 days ago and the previous band took 24 months to cross, so the real count is still just under 100.
Install history since 2 Feb 2018
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ healthysolutions4living7.0y ago
Initially had some problems in that database entries were not being picked up by search engine that were designed to do that very thing. Working with Brian at PG, he modified his code so that the default WP search would work. No other developer has given me this kind of attention. Thank you! This topic was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by healthysolutions4living. This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by healthysolutions4living.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ camitchell2467.3y ago
This affiliate link shop plugin is the best I’ve used. The last one I tried didn’t have product re-ordering or anchor link features. I need the dedicated anchor links to use in marketing emails, and the shortcodes work really well with the Advanced Gutenberg tab feature. I had a small problem with how the anchor links displayed at first, but Brian was extremely helpful in resolving the issue and now everything works perfectly! Thanks to this plugin my shop page looks clean. Thank you, Brian!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ gdebruijn7.4y ago
Great plugin. Easy to use, easy set up. I’m happy I activated this one.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Terry J8.7y ago
I would give this plugin 10 stars if could! Really simple to use and has excellent features.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ thegridzom9.1y ago
I wanted to build a site that wasn’t an official e-commerce store, so I began my search, this morning and found this plug-in. It’s perfect. You simply write your post and insert the item from your shop inventory (basically an affiliate linked product to Ebay in this case). So happy! Thank you for creating it, it’s PERFECT!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ samshara11.5y ago
Lo mejor que hay para productos de afiliados, sencillo de utilizar. Me gusta.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ ldjautobody13.4y ago
PG Simple Affiliate Shop is a great, very simple plugin that works…and works well. Getting your store up and running is the number #1 most important thing to a marketer. Everyone wants to get their stores up and running as quickly and efficiently as possible. So stop wasting time reviewing those paid sites…this plugin works better than all of them…and it’s free! This is truly a “no brainer”! AND, they have great support too! 😉 Loading your products into your store is a little tedious, but you only have to do it once and you’re done. Using the “category” type or product types available eliminates the need to ever have to load a product more than once. You can filter your products any way you’d like, so it’s even “better” than the paid subscriptions out there! A truly great plugin that deserves a 5 star rating no matter how you look at it! Thanks and I will be making a donation…as should everyone else that uses it. I wish all WordPress plugins worked this well…:)
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ littledove2213.9y ago
I created a directory of affiliates by creating a heirarchy of categories with this plugin. Each category displays on its own page including a “Specials” category for sale offers. The pagination works great and each category is alphabetized. The easy to setup, easy to use PG Simple Affiliate Shop plugin makes it possible! I use it together with the Affiliate Links Manager to mask the links, and the WordPress Download Monitor. See it all here: YourRestaurantStartUp.com. Great plugin!
Read on wp.org ↗
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
5 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Create a simple and attractive store for your affiliate products and banner advertisements. Easily manage t..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 8 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 8 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Yoast.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,460 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 5 tags appear in the text ("affiliate marketing", "affiliate product management", "affiliate store", "simple affiliate page" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-13 100+ → 90+ down after 715 days in tier
- 2024-10-28 200+ → 100+ down after 409 days in tier
- 2023-09-15 300+ → 200+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2023-09-12 200+ → 300+ up after 8 days in tier
- 2023-09-04 300+ → 200+ down after 206 days in tier
- 2023-02-10 400+ → 300+ down after 129 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 500+ → 400+ down after 580 days in tier
- 2021-03-03 900+ → 500+ down after 915 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Content Egg – Affiliate Product Importer & Price Comparison 10K+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag B -
AffiliateX – Amazon Affiliate Plugin, Product Boxes, Comparison Tables & Affiliate Link Tracking 9K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A -
Affiliates Manager 8K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
YITH WooCommerce Affiliates 6K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
Goaffpro Affiliate Marketing 4K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Affiliates 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
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