Braintree Payment Gateway For WooCommerce
by syednazrulhassan · eCommerce
Also makes 9 other plugins · 470+ installs across the portfolio →
This plugin is an addon for WooCommerce to implement a payment gateway method for accepting Credit Cards Payments By merchants via Braintree Gateway.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈15 estimated
Momentum
-76%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “braintree for woocommerce” for “paymentgateway”. “braintree for woocommerce” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “paymentgateway” sits at #16 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
45 health vs 71 average across 9,787 eCommerce plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.3%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 3.1K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,164 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
51/100Maintenance 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- No tested-up-to version. The listing declares no "Tested up to" version.
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3691 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
No "Tested up to" declared, treated as a major version behind
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3691 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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.
32
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 20d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 20d
+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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| braintree woocommerce paymentgateway your tag | #1 | #1 | — |
| braintree woocommerce credit card processor your tag | #9 | #8 | 0 |
| woocommerce braintree addon your tag | #15 | #14 | 0 |
| paymentgateway | #16 | #10 | down 1 |
| braintree for woocommerce your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| free braintree gateway for woocommerce your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
6 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 4 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “braintree for woocommerce” for “paymentgateway”. “braintree for woocommerce” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “paymentgateway” sits at #16 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 braintree addon”. #15 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 126 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,400 to #44,800, alongside the other plugins at 10+ 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
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
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 “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 8 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Alex Toma10.0y ago
Works perfect with Woocommerce 2.6.8.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ B Masson10.3y ago
Does exactly what it’s supposed to do.
Read on wp.org ↗
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
1 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, PayPal.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 832 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 5 tags appear in the text ("braintree for woocommerce", "braintree woocommerce credit card processor", "braintree woocommerce paymentgateway", "free braintree gateway for woocommerce", "woocommerce braintree addon" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-03-05 20+ → 10+ down after 30 days in tier
- 2026-02-03 10+ → 20+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2026-01-29 20+ → 10+ down after 397 days in tier
- 2024-12-28 30+ → 20+ down after 413 days in tier
- 2023-11-11 40+ → 30+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2023-11-08 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2023-11-05 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-11-04 30+ → 40+ up after 1 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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WooCommerce 7M+ installs · 4.5★ A -
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Google for WooCommerce 800K+ installs · 2.8★ C -
WooCommerce PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.9★ B -
YITH WooCommerce Wishlist 400K+ installs · 3.9★ B -
WooCommerce Legacy REST API 400K+ installs · 2.2★ C
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