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SatoshiPay

by satoshipay · Payments

Adds SatoshiPay to your site, allowing you to charge small amounts for posts, images, audios, videos or downloads using micropayments.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 47/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

10+

≈15 estimated

Momentum

+100%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “blockchain”, “micropayments” and “paypal” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 68 average across 1,680 Payments plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.1%

of downloads still active

At least 10 of 7.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Payments plugin keeps 1.0%, across 1,042 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Payments plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
1.11
Last updated
7.3y ago
Added
2015-11-14 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.4.5
Tested up to
5.2.30
Requires PHP
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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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 1/100

Updated 2659 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 15/100

Tested up to WordPress 5.2.30; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 58/100

5.0★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 4.20★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 2659 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+100% vs prior 30d
431 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 81 · peaks are release surges

531 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

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

7.3y ago

latest release · v1.11 · 22 Jul 2019

23

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.11 · 22 Jul 20192.0 · 30 Jun 20191.9 · 16 Jan 20191.8 · 20 Dec 20181.7 · 14 Dec 20181.6 · 5 Dec 20181.5 · 20 Oct 20181.4 · 5 Oct 20181.3 · 28 Sep 20181.2 · 28 Sep 20181.1 · 16 Aug 20181.0 · 16 Aug 20180.10 · 16 Aug 20180.9 · 10 Dec 2017

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.

v1.11 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈15

Crossed into this band 2.8 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 27 May 2016

101 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ worldtravellerxx
    7.8y ago

    I started using SatoshiPay recently and it works really well. I can just add a paywall to my travel blog posts and ask my readers to pay a little amount. I can even sell my travel guides as downloads and collect donations for local charities. I love it!!!

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  2. ★★★★★ marcelcure
    7.9y ago

    We run the sketching and watercolour tuition website roisincure.com. Before we installed SatoshiPay 6 months ago, we used Patreon to monetise our content. Patreon was difficult to use for content on our website (easier if you put content on their website) and we had a ton of support issues with people having trouble accessing our content. We never liked asking for patronage anyway – we just wanted to charge a small price for our articles. This was not really possible until SatoshiPay, since making credit card transactions for small payments was really slow and expensive. SatoshiPay works very well for us. At last we can get a fair deal for a small publisher like ourselves. Once the web wallet is topped up, it is just one click to open up an article on our website. It works perfectly. A few times I have contacted their support team – usually because I wanted an enhancement. They always respond within a couple of hours and they are very encouraging, with tips etc. This is the future of small publishing. I thoroughly recommend SatoshiPay.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ bluebirdstuff
    7.9y ago

    I really love how easy it was to implement the plugin, and how well it converts when asking your readers for donations or small payments for certain articles. I’d love to give an extra star for the fact that all this even runs on the blockchain, how cool is that!!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ reneoelke
    10.7y ago

    Finally you can use a simple way Bitcoins in WordPress. Not only as a blog owner, but also as a visitor. In addition, you also get another great Ad Blocker detection.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ kiwizza
    10.7y ago

    finally bitcoin for wordpress When a lot of people like me pay a few satoshis (everybody can afford that!) for good research, maybe these ugly click bate pages turn into real quality content delivering

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  6. ★★★★★ tothemoongirl
    10.7y ago

    and it’s so simple. You guys are awesome. I think I’ll even start to post more just of what I think and experience in my daily and professional life. I mean I know that for a lot of people my personal knowledge is helpful and now I even think of making an additional business just out of that. Finally, I hope a lot of websites will get rid of these nasty ads and write some valuable content. When a lot of people like me pay a few satoshis (everybody can afford that!) for good research, maybe these ugly click bate pages turn into real quality content delivering sites. Here is for wishful thinking. Some clever geeks surely will come up with more clever ways. I am looking forward to you to release the option to paywall individual text passages on a single page.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

French (Canada) 46%
German 20%

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

3 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Adds SatoshiPay to your site, allowing you to charge small amounts for posts, images, audios, videos or dow..."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 640 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("lumen", "paypal", "stellar" missing).

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-01-30 20+ → 10+ down after 34 days in tier
  2. 2023-12-27 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-12-26 20+ → 10+ down after 284 days in tier
  4. 2023-03-17 30+ → 20+ down after 59 days in tier
  5. 2023-01-17 40+ → 30+ down after 73 days in tier
  6. 2022-11-05 50+ → 40+ down after 385 days in tier
  7. 2021-10-16 100+ → 50+ down after 818 days in tier
  8. 2019-07-21 40+ → 100+ up

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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