Rock The Slackbot
by Rachel Cherry · Chat & Support
Also makes 2 other plugins · 410+ installs across the portfolio →
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 63 average across 671 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 4.7.35, 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 3520 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
62
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
9.6y ago
latest release · v1.1.2
4
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2016-04-05 · 1,392 observations
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
Est. acquisition value
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
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ hikarukujo8.9y ago
Only thing missing would be a way to limit post notifications based on category or tag, or alternatively to allow a per-post override of the channel name for a post notification. Would make this perfect to scope posts based on team or group who should be reading a post. Thanks!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Mateus Neves9.3y ago
A great and very useful plugin. It does everything it says.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ wernerhampel9.5y ago
Top work!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Stanislav Khromov9.5y ago
No muss, no fuss. It just works.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ dorians9.6y ago
Just what I needed 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Shawn Hooper9.9y ago
My company’s web presence is made up of 4 subsites, each with their own blogs. Rock The Slackbot made it easy for me to automatically announce our new posts to a dedicated slack channel, so that the entire team is kept up-to-date on company news. In addition, it notifies the technical team (in another channel) when a new version of WordPress core is available, and when there are plugins to be updated. The plugin’s configuration is easy to understand, and it just works.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Limes10.1y ago
Rock The Slackbot is absolutely amazing. I experienced this especially when I got the email notification to update other plugins when Rock The Slackbot was unable to provide information to Slack (because of my mistake in channel name). Well done!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ brs14ku10.1y ago
Thanks again. Trying to get the boss to buy you a few cups of coffee 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 128 languages, 2 at 90% or more
Plus 104 more locales with partial translations.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-10-22 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-10-21 100+ → 200+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2024-10-15 200+ → 100+ down after 535 days in tier
- 2023-04-29 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-04-28 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-04-26 300+ → 200+ down
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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Manage Notification E-mails 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Facebook Chat Plugin – Live Chat Plugin for WordPress 70K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D -
Tidio – Live Chat & AI Chatbots 70K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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