Rock The Slackbot
by Rachel Cherry · Chat & Support
Rock The Slackbot helps you stay on top of changes by sending notifications straight to you and your team inside your Slack account.
50 health vs 62 average across 380 Chat & Support 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, 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 3475 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
42
now · peak 96
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-10-22 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-10-21 100+ → 200+ up after 6 days in band
- 2024-10-15 200+ → 100+ down after 535 days in band
- 2023-04-29 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-04-28 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
- 2023-04-26 300+ → 200+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Floating Chat Widget: Contact Chat Icons, Telegram Chat, Line Messenger, WeChat, Email, SMS, Call Button – Chaty 400K+ installs · 5.0★ · 1 shared tag A -
Manage Notification E-mails 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag B -
Facebook Chat Plugin – Live Chat Plugin for WordPress 80K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D -
Tidio – Live Chat & AI Chatbots 80K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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