PayPal Payflow Pro Payment gateway for WooCommerce
by syednazrulhassan · Payments
Also makes 9 other plugins · 470+ installs across the portfolio →
This plugin acts as an addon for woocommerce to add a payment method for WooCommerce for accepting credit card payments by merchants directly on your …
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Health
Not scored
no reviews to score from
Active installs
20+
≈29 estimated
Momentum
-35%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “paypal” and “woocommerce” for “payflow” and “paypal payflow”. “paypal” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “payflow” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “woocommerce” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “paypal payflow” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Not scored yet. Nobody has reviewed this plugin, so a grade would come from directory averages rather than from anything measured here.
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.7%
of downloads still active
At least 20 of 2.9K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Payments plugin keeps 1.0%, across 1,043 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Payments 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 3746 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
No "Tested up to" declared, treated as a major version behind
No reviews yet, so wp.org scores it as a middling unrated listing
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3746 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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| woocommerce addon paypal payflow pro your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| paypal payflow pro for woocommerce your tag | #3 | #3 | 0 |
| payflow | #6 | #6 | 0 |
| paypal payflow | #6 | #6 | 0 |
| paypal payflow pro for wordpress your tag | #6 | #6 | 0 |
| woocommerce addon paypalpro | #2 | #2 | 0 |
| paypal your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| woocommerce your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
10 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 6 listed. 4 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 “paypal” and “woocommerce” for “payflow” and “paypal payflow”. “paypal” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “payflow” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “woocommerce” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “paypal payflow” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 152 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #25,400 to #28,300, alongside the other plugins at 20+ 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 “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 34 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 30.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
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
2 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "This plugin acts as an addon for woocommerce to add a payment method for WooCommerce for accepting credit c..."
- ! 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 896 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("paypal payflow pro for woocommerce", "paypal payflow pro for wordpress", "woocommerce addon paypal payflow pro" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-09-28 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2026-09-24 20+ → 30+ up after 231 days in tier
- 2026-02-05 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-02-02 20+ → 30+ up after 76 days in tier
- 2025-11-18 30+ → 20+ down after 95 days in tier
- 2025-08-15 20+ → 30+ up after 23 days in tier
- 2025-07-23 30+ → 20+ down after 332 days in tier
- 2024-08-25 40+ → 30+ down after 11 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 PayPal Payments 800K+ installs · 2.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
PayPal Enterprise Payments (formerly Braintree) for WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 2.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
Google for WooCommerce 800K+ installs · 2.8★ · 1 shared tag C -
WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway 700K+ installs · 3.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
WooCommerce Tax (formerly WooCommerce Shipping & Tax) 500K+ installs · 2.3★ · 1 shared tag B -
WooCommerce Legacy REST API 400K+ installs · 2.2★ · 1 shared tag C
Embed this report card
Drop a live Pulse card for PayPal Payflow Pro Payment gateway for WooCommerce into a readme, a review or a deck. It updates itself.
<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/webmicro-payflowpro-woo-addon" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="PayPal Payflow Pro Payment gateway for WooCommerce — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> PayPal Payflow Pro Payment gateway for WooCommerce: 20+ active installs, no reviews yet. Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/webmicro-payflowpro-woo-addon
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