Smart Brands for WooCommerce
by ShapedPlugin LLC · eCommerce
Also makes 20 other plugins · 293.1K+ installs across the portfolio →
Create unlimited brands to assign to your products, highlight the brands of the products you sell, and boost sales instantly!
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Health
A 86/100
Few reviews
Active installs
300+
≈380 estimated
Momentum
+10%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: Swap “woocommerce product brands” for “brands”. “woocommerce product brands” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #18. “brands” sits at #7 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
86 health vs 71 average across 9,824 eCommerce plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.9%
of downloads still active
At least 300 of 15.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,168 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.
This plugin shipped 6 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 60 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 4 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.2★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
46
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 27d
36%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 27d
+0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| woocommerce brands slider your tag | #5 | #21 | 0 |
| brands | #7 | #18 | 0 |
| product brand logos your tag | #8 | #19 | down 1 |
| woocommerce brands your tag | #11 | #21 | 0 |
| woocommerce product brands your tag | #18 | #22 | up 1 |
| manufacturer your tag | #17 | #21 | down 3 |
| product brands | #10 | #22 | 0 |
| brand logos | #10 | #17 | 0 |
| brand | #11 | #21 | 0 |
| brand new | #11 | #21 | 0 |
| brand for products | #16 | #22 | 0 |
| woocommerce manufacturer | #16 | #21 | 0 |
| brand page | #20 | #23 | up 1 |
| woocommerce pause sales | #21 | #22 | 0 |
| product brand | #23 | #23 | down 1 |
32 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 15 listed. 17 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Swap “woocommerce product brands” for “brands”. “woocommerce product brands” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #18. “brands” sits at #7 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “woocommerce brands”. #11 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 20 Oct 2022 · 1,476 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 925 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ 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.
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
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
6
releases in the last 12 months
2mo ago
latest release · v2.0.8 · 4 Sep 2026
24
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 “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4 months ago and the previous band took 2.3 years to cross, so the real count is still just under 400.
Install history since 19 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ imaxweb1.6y ago
I was looking for a good plugin to showcase my customer’s brand logos, and I finally found the perfect solution – Smart Brands for WooCommerce. This is not just another plugin; it’s superb, easy to use, and simple to customize to fit exactly what I needed. What impressed me the most is their outstanding support. After purchasing, I needed some additional modifications and reached out to them via online chat. They handled everything I requested quickly and professionally. They really are experts in what they do. I can confidently say this plugin is a 100% recommended solution for anyone looking to showcase brands on a WooCommerce site!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Marco Panichi2.0y ago
It works perfectly and solved my problem, which was to catalog products with a taxonomy other than product categories. (Also the PRO version support is perfect and took care of my problem completely and carefully – Highly recommended)
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ andersjytzler2.8y ago
Just as a plugin should be!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ shaheen90833.9y ago
This is a very useful plugin for showing product brands on your shop. I really like the flexibility of options to use widgets or shortcode to display brands in various way.
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more
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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Create unlimited brands to assign to your products, highlight the brands of the products you sell, and boos..."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you run"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Multisite.
- ✓ Headings and lists 5 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 3,080 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 5 tags appear in the text ("manufacturer", "product brand logos", "woocommerce brands", "woocommerce brands slider", "woocommerce product brands" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-10 400+ → 300+ down after 847 days in tier
- 2024-03-15 300+ → 400+ up after 107 days in tier
- 2023-11-29 200+ → 300+ up after 115 days in tier
- 2023-08-06 100+ → 200+ up after 151 days in tier
- 2023-03-08 90+ → 100+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2023-03-02 80+ → 90+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2023-02-18 70+ → 80+ up after 10 days in tier
- 2023-02-08 60+ → 70+ up after 10 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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Easy Woocommerce Brands 30+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D -
GS WooCommerce Brands – Product Brands Slider, Grid, Filter & Carousel 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags A -
Perfect Brands for WooCommerce 40K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
MAS Brands for WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag -
YITH WooCommerce Brands Add-On 8K+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Premmerce Brands for WooCommerce 2K+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag B
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