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Simple Woocommerce Favourites

by Jon Boss · eCommerce

Also makes 3 other plugins · 110+ installs across the portfolio →

Manages a simple list of favourites for each user of their preferred products and displays it with a shortcode

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⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews

Health

C 67/100

Stale · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

+37%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “products” and “woocommerce” 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 →
67 Health · C
Maintenance 55/100
Rating quality 79/100
Support 70/100

67 health vs 71 average across 9,787 eCommerce plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.3%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 7.6K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,166 plugins.

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

Details

Version
2.1.5
Last updated
1.2y ago
Added
2017-03-23 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.4
Tested up to
6.8.12
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.

70 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 62/100

Updated 426 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 77/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.8.12; the current branch is 7.1

Rating quality 59/100

4.6★ over 7 reviews, smoothed to 4.16★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 84/100

3 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 426 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 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+37% vs prior 30d
81 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 210 · peaks are release surges

1362 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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 1 Nov 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.62 Nov 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

672 Nov 2026

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.

1.4K2 Nov 2026

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

1.2y ago

latest release · v2.1.5 · 2 Sep 2025

16

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.1.5 · 2 Sep 20252.1.4 · 29 Jan 20242.1.3 · 8 Oct 20232.1.2 · 5 Feb 20192.1.1 · 4 Feb 20192.1 · 23 Jan 20192.0.2 · 23 Jan 20192.0 · 16 Jan 20192.0.1 · 16 Jan 20191.5.1 · 29 Jun 20181.5 · 12 Jan 20181.4 · 17 Nov 20171.3 · 24 Aug 20171.1 · 24 Aug 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.

v2.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 14 months 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 15 Oct 2019

1002 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ lostcrow
    3.2y ago

    Plugin works but it really needs more customisation option.. Currently the “Add To Favorites” is sitting at the very bottom of the page where no one will see it, making it useless really. Not being able to move the button and the output message lets this down bigtime.. also the button colour was too dark, again, making it hard to see… this however I could fix via css… shame the position cant be fixed that easily 🙁 Ive been to the plugin support forum and the code advised just cause my entire website to crash… even after replacing all the quotes as instructed. It would have also been nice to replace the ‘add to favs’ button with ‘remove from favs’ once it appears in the users account.

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  2. ★★★★★ regiopata
    7.7y ago

    The plugin works brilliant – as described. Support is awesome too!

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  3. ★★★★★ digvijaypatil
    7.8y ago

    Its very simple, very effective and a must have plugin. It does add a ‘add to favorite’ button to your product page. And a ‘Favorites’ Page. No other bullshit. Also the support is awesome. I mailed my questions twice and i got replies very quickly both times. Great work.

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  4. ★★★★★ theprinze
    8.8y ago

    Great simple plugin. Very effective. Best support experience. Received immediate help. Works perfectly.

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  5. ★★★★★ s6rvus
    9.0y ago

    This is a very nice favorite plugin! Works perfectly. I have a very basic knowledge of .php (almost none) but it was very easy to change some things around so all the texts and buttons would be in the language of my site! It took me about 10 min. (yes i am that bad with php :p )

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  6. ★★★★★ impaktwebdesign
    9.0y ago

    This is literally the only favourite that i can find that works how it should, the only closest thing after this is a wish list (which removes products after ordering them). Having initially installing the plugin and realised that the button goes to the bottom of the page and my customer wanted to see it at the top. Contacted Jonathan Boss who came back in exceptionally fast and assisted me. Can’t wait to see the development of the plugin, would be good to see features such as being able to select multiple favourites and put them straight in the basket. P.S If you want to move the button from the bottom to the top then simply add this code to the bottom of the function.php file in your theme: remove_action(‘woocommerce_after_single_product’, ’simple_add_favourites_button’, 10); add_action(‘woocommerce_before_single_product’, ’simple_add_favourites_button’, 10);

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ artworld
    9.3y ago

    Best favorite plugin I could find after testing all wishlist, collections and favorite plugins.I have an art store so users need to see all their favorites in one place to see if they go well together. Wishlist plugins all have a small thumbnail that you cant really see. This plugin groups all your favorite shop items on one page so you can see how they look together.

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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

4 of 8 pass · checked 2 Nov 2026

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

  • ✓ Says what it does "Manages a simple list of favourites for each user of their preferred products and displays it with a shortcode"
  • ! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Feedback and Support").
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use this"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 2 lists.
  • ! Enough to quote 510 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text All 3 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-08-29 200+ → 100+ down after 7 days in tier
  2. 2025-08-22 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-08-21 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-08-20 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-08-19 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in tier
  6. 2025-08-14 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-08-13 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in tier
  8. 2025-08-08 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier

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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