Category Discounts for WooCommerce
by wildprogrammers · eCommerce
Also makes 1 other plugin · 40+ installs across the portfolio →
Category Discounts plugin allows you to manage discounts for your WooCommerce store in an intelligent yet simple ways.
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Health
D 43/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
30+
≈35 estimated
Momentum
-67%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: “category discounts for woocommerce”, “woocommerce category discounts” and “woocommerce discount” 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.
43 health vs 71 average across 9,789 eCommerce plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.7%
of downloads still active
At least 30 of 4.1K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,169 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
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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.2.15.
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 1304 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.2.15; the current branch is 7.1
3.0★ over 4 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.0★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 1304 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| category discounts for woocommerce your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| woocommerce your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| woocommerce category discounts your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| woocommerce discount your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “category discounts for woocommerce”, “woocommerce category discounts” and “woocommerce discount” 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.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 138 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #23,100 to #25,000, alongside the other plugins at 30+ 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.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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 “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 9 months ago; the previous band took 12 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
At the current install trend, crossing 40+ in roughly 290 days.
Install history since 17 Aug 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ trikha895.0y ago
The plugin works as expected. Superb code quality and great support.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ missmikado5.4y ago
This plugin can not do, what the title is promising. You only can add discounts per product, NOT to a category. This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by missmikado.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Sivustonikkari5.5y ago
It does not have an option to set a discount per category.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ giac8.6y ago
Thanks for the great plugin, solved nicely our product discount problems and even more thank for the hook!!
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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
6 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 "Category Discounts plugin allows you to manage discounts for your WooCommerce store in an intelligent yet s..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 5 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 5 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you want"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,667 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "woocommerce category discounts", "woocommerce discount" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-29 40+ → 30+ down after 371 days in tier
- 2025-01-23 50+ → 40+ down after 148 days in tier
- 2024-08-28 60+ → 50+ down after 151 days in tier
- 2024-03-30 70+ → 60+ down after 148 days in tier
- 2023-11-03 80+ → 70+ down after 177 days in tier
- 2023-05-10 90+ → 80+ down after 141 days in tier
- 2022-12-20 80+ → 90+ up
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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Simple Discount Rules for Woocommerce 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
Taxonomy/Term and Role-based Discounts for WooCommerce 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag A -
PiWeb Conditional Discount / Bulk discounts for WooCommerce 100+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A -
REDIS – WooCommerce Dynamic Pricing and Discounts 90+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B -
wiseCampaign – WooCommerce Flash Sale, Countdown Timer, Discount Rules & Sales Notification 40+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
Discountify – Discount Rules, BOGO & Bulk Pricing for WooCommerce 30+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
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