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Travel Search

by Travelgrove · Search

Search and Compare major travel websites for cheapest flights, hotels, car rentals and vacation packages in this one-step travel search engine.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
42 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 67/100
Support 70/100

42 health vs 60 average across 606 Search plugins

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 4.2.39, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3444 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

+22% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

33

now · peak 88

3330d 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

Travel Search · #25955 you Hotel Booking · #3455 Simple Learn Japanes · #11121 Hotelipp · #11748

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.4Stars · Aug 26

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.

1.6Kper 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

9.4y ago

latest release · v1.4.4

15

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.4 · 9.4y ago1.4.3 · 11.2y ago1.4.2 · 11.2y ago1.4.1 · 11.5y ago1.4 · 11.7y ago1.3 · 11.8y ago1.2.6 · 12.6y ago1.2.5 · 12.9y ago1.2.4 · 13.3y ago1.2.3 · 13.4y ago1.2.2 · 13.4y ago1.2.1 · 14.2y ago1.2 · 14.3y ago1.1 · 14.3y 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.

v1.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
20–30 ≈27

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

Install history · since 2015-05-22 · 1,377 observations

20Installs · 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.

Details

Version
1.4.4
Last updated
9.4y ago
Added
2012-04-26 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.1
Tested up to
4.2.39
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. KingDingbat
    8.4y ago

    1st: The plugin does not work. You enter the search information and click “Compare Prices” button and it just resets the form. No search. 2. They do not support the plugin. Look at the 5 star (!!) review from Travelgrove on here – They outright say they aren’t going to support the plugin for their own service. 3. Their affiliate website is completely broken, and has no CSS. (As of this writing) 4. The only things that do work on their website are their own affiliate links to outside websites like Travelocity and Expedia… and my own affiliate code was not included in that link, so basically, I think this plugin is a scam to up their own affiliate revenue and nothing for me. They require an incredible amount of personal information to sign up to be an affiliate, which is perfectly acceptable. However I should have checked out this plugin before I provided it. I went into my account and “scrambled” all my info because I’m concerned it’s in the hands of dishonest people now. I uninstalled it.

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  2. Amade Lang
    9.6y ago

    I have sent more than a three email to, but never answered ! There is nothing to know about how they will pay out my commissions.. So do not use affiliate program, untill it is not cleared before

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  3. teedah1
    10.0y ago

    no clear payout info, lack of support, bad plug in

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  4. Travelgrove
    10.9y ago

    Dear All, A few notes from Travelgrove’s End – since we are extremely busy nowadays support for this plugin is rather limited or paused. The plugin should usually work perfectly and it does with common WordPress istallations – if it does not that denotes a conflict with theme or other plugins which we might not be able to track down one by one. Regarding personal information, that’s a must for all of our partners and it’s also common business standard and practice. Regarding declined publishers, our geographical target is the United States, so sits not falling under that condition might be declined. Best Regards, The Travelgrove Team.

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  5. bnemo2015
    11.5y ago

    Hey Travel Search team! I wanted to speak with you about a potential partnership opportunity. I am contacting you on behalf of Hipmunk, Forbes 2014’s #1 Travel Site. Please shoot me an email if you are interested. [email protected] Thanks!

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  6. Anonymous
    12.4y ago

    I am sure this works well but the compare button does not work and what good is that if that doesn’t work. Plus who si getting the revenue when the consumer buys a ticket from the travel website? Plus you have to give this travelgrove personal information to join. Has anyone made money off of this?

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  7. singhkashyap
    12.8y ago

    i have installed this plugin on my website wwww.satsur.in.later on my membership was declined by travel group stating without any reason.when i have emailed the three letters to travel group.but reply from travel growto me .it apear as fake .. leter from travelgrove.. We’re sorry to tell you, that your request for Travelgrove’s affiliate program was declined For further information please contact [email protected] [email protected]

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  8. LunaGraphica
    13.1y ago

    This is a great plugin that fills a real need. We had some problems getting it to work due to issues with our site, and Travel Search staff was incredibly helpful in tracking down the problem for us. Highly recommended!

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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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-31 10+ → 20+ up after 24 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-07 20+ → 10+ down after 247 days in tier
  3. 2025-12-03 30+ → 20+ down after 44 days in tier
  4. 2025-10-20 40+ → 30+ down after 99 days in tier
  5. 2025-07-13 50+ → 40+ down after 3 days in tier
  6. 2025-07-10 40+ → 50+ up after 21 days in tier
  7. 2025-06-19 50+ → 40+ down after 5 days in tier
  8. 2025-06-14 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier

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