Product Admin Notes Simple

Simple plugin to add an admin notes field to products, nothing complicated just gets the job done!

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 48/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

-15%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “admin notes”, “product notes” and “products” 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.

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How scoring works →

48 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 84/100

Support 70/100

48 health vs 71 average across 9,768 eCommerce plugins

100+

Active installs

≈150 estimated

3.6K

Total downloads

since 2017 · 2.8% still active

4.3/5

Rating

5.0 on wp.org · 8 reviews

-15%

Downloads · 30d

category median +9%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

2.8%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 3.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,149 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other eCommerce plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 8 reviews

Details

Version: 1.1
Last updated: 9.3y ago
Added: 2017-06-26 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP: 4.8
Tested up to: 4.8.34
Requires PHP: —

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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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3379 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 9/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.8.34; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 62/100

5.0★ over 8 reviews, smoothed to 4.22★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3379 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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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.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

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
admin notes your tag	Not in the top 24
product notes your tag	Not in the top 24
products your tag	Not in the top 24
products notes your tag	Not checked yet
woocommerce your tag	Not in the top 24

0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

What to do about it

“admin notes”, “product notes” and “products” 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 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-15% vs prior 30d

231 Oct 2026

20100

231 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 152 · peaks are release surges

801 Nov 2026

2001000

801 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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 21 Oct 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

51 Nov 2026

52.50

51 Nov 2026

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.

8001 Nov 2026

2K1K0

8001 Nov 2026

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 19 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 4 Dec 2021

1001 Nov 2026

3001500

1001 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

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★★★★★ tonehfc
6.1y ago

Great plugin. Works a treat. Thanks!
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★★★★★ javmah
7.6y ago

Thank you. excellent work.
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★★★★★ theupperroomnl
8.0y ago

Hi, is it possible to show these Admin notes in the New order mail send to admin? Thanks!
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★★★★★ nathaniel7sg
8.3y ago

As dropshipping , I wanted this to keep track of which supplier’s product this is! Really helpful and really what I looked for! Would really appreciate more features in the future!
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★★★★★ nathaniel7sg
8.3y ago

As dropshipping , I wanted this to keep track of which supplier’s product this is! Really helpful and really what I looked for! Would really appreciate more features in the future!
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★★★★★ Anonymous
8.6y ago

Just what I needed, but not working with variations :(, hope you update this 🙂
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★★★★★ leodoggy
8.9y ago

I’ll echo “just what we needed”. Works simply and perfectly. Very grateful that you put this out there.
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★★★★★ grinch89
8.9y ago

The plugin is amazing for us those that do not know anything about coding(and honestly trying I broke my website way too many times :)) ). But I would like it to be under Inventory admin tab(but still visible only for the admin) because it does not appear on the Variable Products on which I would love to have it on.
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more · development strings

Dutch (Belgium) 100%

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

1 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

✓ Says what it does "Simple plugin to add an admin notes field to products, nothing complicated just gets the job done!"
! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Installation Instructions").
! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
! Enough to quote 98 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("Product notes", "products notes", "woocommerce" missing).

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

2025-04-25 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
2025-04-24 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
2025-04-21 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
2025-04-20 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
2025-04-18 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
2025-04-15 100+ → 200+ up after 4 days in tier
2025-04-11 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
2025-04-10 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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Product Admin Notes Simple: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/products-admin-notes-simple

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