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WP REST API – OAuth 1.0a Server

by Joe Hoyle · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 8.8K+ installs across the portfolio →

Connect applications to your WordPress site without ever giving away your password.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
52 Health · D
Maintenance 24/100
Rating quality 70/100
Support 70/100

52 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

66 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 33/100
WP compatibility 88/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 754 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

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

+9% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

2.1K

now · peak 7.7K

2.1K30d 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

WP REST API · #2464 you Disable REST API · #508 Disable WP REST API · #1002 WordPress REST API ( · #2079

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.7Stars · 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.

266per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.1y ago

latest release · v0.4.5

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.4.5 · 2.1y ago0.4.4 · 2.1y ago0.4.3 · 2.7y ago0.4.2 · 2.7y ago0.4.0 · 2.7y ago0.4.1 · 2.7y ago0.3.0 · 9.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 86% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.4 86%
v0.3 14%
v0.2 0.2%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “8K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
8K–9K ≈8.6K

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

Install history · since 2016-10-27 · 1,451 observations

8KInstalls · 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
0.4.4
Last updated
2.1y ago
Added
2016-10-06 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.4
Tested up to
6.6.7
Requires PHP
5.4

Recent reviews

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  1. springapidev
    5.5y ago

    it is very good plugin, please update.

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  2. Ahmed Hnewa
    5.5y ago

    Really Useful And Good Plugin But Please 1- Reply on The Support Forum 2- Update it To Work Good With Last WordPress Verison 3 – No Clear Docs 4 – not work with localhost

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  3. majidmad
    6.4y ago

    Missing parameter oauth_token

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  4. mphramin
    8.0y ago

    I have create application with consumer name, description and callback. but after few our, that application had removed. why did that? This topic was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by mphramin.

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  5. Rehmat Alam
    8.9y ago

    Got this working after some good amount of work! Thanks for bringing this and making API calls secure.

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  6. eddiewebb
    9.1y ago

    Just google { "code": "rest_cannot_create", "message": "Sorry, you are not allowed to create posts as this user.", "data": { "status": 401 } } and you’ll find anyone using this plugin having issues authenticating to perform and protected operations. Dev team is not even responding to github issues or forum posts.

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  7. enriquecerda
    9.7y ago

    Hello, I have made an adapter for Parse Server under Node.js with which you can link the login of any installation of wordpress in Parse Server, for that I have used your plugin, which is the one that gives us access_token and allows us to verify the authenticity Of the user registered in the server. https://github.com/enriquecerda/parse-server-wordpress-login

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.4.3

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-03-30 9K+ → 8K+ down after 604 days in tier
  2. 2024-08-03 10K+ → 9K+ down after 56 days in tier
  3. 2024-06-08 9K+ → 10K+ up after 50 days in tier
  4. 2024-04-19 10K+ → 9K+ down after 44 days in tier
  5. 2024-03-06 9K+ → 10K+ up after 25 days in tier
  6. 2024-02-10 10K+ → 9K+ down after 3 days in tier
  7. 2024-02-07 9K+ → 10K+ up after 2 days in tier
  8. 2024-02-05 10K+ → 9K+ down after 34 days in tier

Competes with

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