Sparkle Paddle Payment Gateway Lite
by Sparkle WP · Payments
Use Paddle Payment Gateway for your potential customers and take your eCommerce platform to next level.
44 health vs 67 average across 667 Payments plugins
Removal-risk signals
45/100Maintenance 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1202 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
24
now · peak 163
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “50+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-07 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-06-06 50+ → 60+ up after 161 days in band
- 2025-12-27 60+ → 50+ down after 38 days in band
- 2025-11-19 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-11-18 60+ → 50+ down after 52 days in band
- 2025-09-27 70+ → 60+ down after 3 days in band
- 2025-09-24 60+ → 70+ up after 7 days in band
- 2025-09-17 70+ → 60+ down after 4 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Easy Digital Downloads – Paddle Gateway 20+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D -
HandyPlugins PaddlePress – Paddle Integration for WordPress 70+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
Checkout Gateway for Paddle 40+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
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