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SagePay Direct Gateway for Easy Digital Downloads

by PatSaTECH · eCommerce

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SagePay Direct Gateway for accepting payments on your Easy Digital Downloads Store.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 72/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 68 average across 5,562 eCommerce plugins

10+

Active installs

≈16 estimated

1.6K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.91★

Rating (adjusted)

4.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+59%

27

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 4.6.30, 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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 7/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3651 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+59% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

27

now · peak 52

2730d 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

SagePay Direct Gatew · #45608 you Pay for Payment for · #1702 SumUp Payment Gatewa · #2087 Bold pagos en linea · #3310

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.

2.7Kper 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

10.0y ago

latest release · v1.0.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.0 · 10.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈16

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,366 observations

10Installs · 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.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
0 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
10.0y ago
Added
2015-04-19 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
4.6.30
Requires PHP
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  1. ★★★★★ Ashley
    10.8y ago

    Overall this plugin works perfectly. I’ve been using it for a few months now and haven’t had any issues. My one suggestion is to strip spaces from card numbers. The EDD creditCardValidator.js script validates a card number with spaces (it adds the green tick next to the card number), which would make the user think it’s okay. But then when you actually submit the purchase, it says the card number is invalid, which might be confusing. I found this out when I used some of the Sage Pay test card numbers, which they give to you with spaces in. I ended up modifying the plugin to strip spaces then it worked exactly how I wanted. 🙂

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4

✓ 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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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SagePay Direct Gateway for Easy Digital Downloads: 10+ active installs, 4.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/sagepay-direct-gateway-for-easy-digital-downloads