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User role based shipping methods

by techsarai · eCommerce

Display WooCommerce shipping methods based on User Role and Country. Globally compatible.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 51/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

400+

≈480 estimated

Momentum

—

no download trend yet

Biggest opportunity: “hide woocommerce shipping method”, “role based shipping method” and “shipping method based on country” 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 →
51 Health · D
Maintenance 15/100
Rating quality 79/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 71 average across 9,786 eCommerce plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

3.5%

of downloads still active

At least 400 of 11.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,162 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.

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Details

Version
3.1.0
Last updated
2.6y ago
Added
2018-09-19 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
6.4.14
Requires PHP
7.0

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.

61 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 23/100

Updated 946 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 68/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.4.14; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 62/100

4.4★ over 9 reviews, smoothed to 4.15★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 946 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 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

— vs prior 30d
112 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 948 · peaks are release surges

1382 Nov 2026

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

User role based ship · #9476youWooCommerce · #6Popup Builder & Popu · #52Google for WooCommer · #74

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.42 Nov 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

512 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.

3452 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

2.6y ago

latest release · v3.1.0 · 31 Mar 2024

10

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.1.0 · 31 Mar 20243.0.0 · 10 Mar 20242.0.1 · 15 Feb 20242.0.0 · 7 Feb 20221.0.5 · 17 May 20211.0.4 · 7 Apr 20201.0.3 · 19 Mar 20201.0.2 · 21 Jul 20191.0.1 · 29 Jan 20191.0.0 · 19 Sep 2018

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 86% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.1 86%
v2.0 11%
v1.0 2.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈480

Crossed into this band 3 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 500.

Install history since 19 Sep 2020

4002 Nov 2026

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

6 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 "Display WooCommerce shipping methods based on User Role and Country. Globally compatible."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 5 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 5 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use it"); 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 1 list.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,193 characters of description.
  • ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("hide woocommerce shipping method based on user role", "role based shipping method", "shipping method based on country" missing).

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-16 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-14 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-08-13 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-08-12 400+ → 500+ up after 4 days in tier
  5. 2026-08-08 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-08-07 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-08-06 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2026-08-05 400+ → 500+ up after 2 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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User role based shipping methods: 400+ active installs, 4.4★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/user-role-based-shipping-method

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