RecipeSEO
by codeswan · SEO
Recipe SEO made simple. Formats your recipes with the appropriate microformats, so they are more likely to appear in Google's Recipe View.
41 health vs 68 average across 323 SEO 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4, 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 4915 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
20
now · peak 67
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,365 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-02-16 20+ → 10+ down after 23 days in band
- 2025-01-24 10+ → 20+ up after 45 days in band
- 2024-12-10 20+ → 10+ down after 112 days in band
- 2024-08-20 10+ → 20+ up after 89 days in band
- 2024-05-23 20+ → 10+ down after 191 days in band
- 2023-11-14 30+ → 20+ down after 53 days in band
- 2023-09-22 20+ → 30+ up after 42 days in band
- 2023-08-11 30+ → 20+ down after 24 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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LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
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All in One SEO – AI SEO Plugin to Boost SEO Rankings & Traffic (Schema, Local SEO, Sitemap & SEO Insights) 3M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
XML Sitemap Generator for Google 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag B -
SpeedyCache – Cache, Optimization, Performance 600K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/recipeseo" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="RecipeSEO — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> RecipeSEO: 10+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/recipeseo