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PuzzleMe – Interactive Puzzles for WordPress – Easily publish crosswords, quizzes, word searches and more

by Amuse Labs · Uncategorized

PuzzleMe makes it easy to add interactive games to your WordPress website - no coding required.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
83 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

83 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

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.

89 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-1% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

372

now · peak 1.8K

36730d downloads · Aug 26

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

PuzzleMe · #6753 you Crossword Compiler P · #10992 WHA Puzzle · #11438 YMC Crossword · #14298

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4Stars · Aug 26

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.

367per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

5

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v1.4.0

16

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.0 · 3mo ago1.3.1 · 4mo ago1.3.0 · 5mo ago1.2.3 · 6mo ago1.2.2 · 6mo ago1.2.1 · 1.0y ago1.2.0 · 1.3y ago1.1.6 · 1.6y ago1.1.5 · 1.9y ago1.1.4 · 2.4y ago1.1.3 · 2.6y ago1.1.2 · 3.2y ago1.1.1 · 3.4y ago1.1.0 · 3.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 58% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.4 58%
v1.2 22%
v1.3 12%
v1.1 8.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,422 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.4.0
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2022-01-11 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
3.9
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.0

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. jerome14210
    6mo ago

    C’est très bien, mais désormais tout est devenu en premium à des prix fou, 99 euro par mois. On pouvais laisser un message à la fin, c’est payant. L’utilisateur peux voir les réponses, sinon c’est en premium. Vraiment dommage, cette extension ne sert plus à grand chose….

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  2. pmsocial
    7mo ago

    I’ve been using this plugin for a little around a week. It is an excellent plugin. Easy to set up, easy to add to my Games page, and fun to play! Thank you for creating such a wonderful plugin.

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  3. chashutch
    3.4y ago

    I’ve been using Amuse Lab’s “PuzzleMe” app for years. This plugin is yet another example of the Amuse Labs team updating and keeping up with what’s happening with puzzles on the web.Great job team!Hutch

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2025-09-03 CVE-2025-58621 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.2.0 Patched in 1.2.1

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-07-06 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
  2. 2025-07-05 1K+ → 900+ down after 20 days in tier
  3. 2025-06-15 900+ → 1K+ up after 121 days in tier
  4. 2025-02-14 800+ → 900+ up after 113 days in tier
  5. 2024-10-24 700+ → 800+ up after 73 days in tier
  6. 2024-08-12 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-08-11 700+ → 600+ down after 5 days in tier
  8. 2024-08-06 600+ → 700+ up after 2 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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