Digital Goods Checkout on WooCommerce
by Claudio Sanches · eCommerce
Hide billing fields when have only digital products in the cart
48 health vs 72 average across 2,130 eCommerce plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.18.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2167 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
41
now · peak 90
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
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,372 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-01-28 300+ → 200+ down after 303 days in band
- 2025-03-31 400+ → 300+ down after 262 days in band
- 2024-07-12 500+ → 400+ down after 176 days in band
- 2024-01-18 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-01-17 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-01-16 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-01-15 500+ → 600+ up after 3 days in band
- 2024-01-12 600+ → 500+ down after 215 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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Autocomplete WooCommerce Orders 30K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Google for WooCommerce 800K+ installs · 2.7★ · 1 shared tag B -
WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.8★ · 1 shared tag B -
WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ installs · 3.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
WooCommerce Tax (formerly WooCommerce Shipping & Tax) 600K+ installs · 2.2★ · 1 shared tag C -
WooCommerce Legacy REST API 400K+ installs · 2.2★ · 1 shared tag D
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