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Product SKU Generator for WooCommerce

by SkyVerge · eCommerce

Also makes 4 other plugins · 52K+ installs across the portfolio →

Automatically generate WooCommerce product SKUs from the product / attribute slugs and/or IDs.

Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.

Health

B 83/100

no flags

Active installs

8K+

≈8.6K estimated

Momentum

+17%

low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month

Biggest opportunity: Add “generator” to your wp.org tags. You rank #16 for it without listing it, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed it's a slot worth spending.

How scoring works →
83 Health · B
Maintenance 86/100
Rating quality 89/100
Support 70/100

83 health vs 71 average across 9,824 eCommerce plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

4.0%

of downloads still active

At least 8K of 202.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,167 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.

This plugin shipped 2 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.

Details

Version
2.5.1
Last updated
6mo ago
Added
2014-04-13 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
5.6
Tested up to
6.9.11
Requires PHP
7.4

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.

90 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 97/100

Updated 194 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 88/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11; the current branch is 7.1

Rating quality 80/100

4.9★ over 20 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.3★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,491 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+17% low volume vs prior 30d
343 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 5.7K · peaks are release surges

8903 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

Product SKU Generato · #2403youEasy Auto SKU Genera · #1891Simple SKU Generator · #69673Remove SKU From Sing · #5758

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

833 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.

1113 Nov 2026

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

2

releases in the last 12 months

6mo ago

latest release · v2.5.1 · 23 Apr 2026

28

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.5.1 · 23 Apr 20262.5.0 · 2 Mar 20262.4.8 · 31 Jul 20222.4.7 · 31 Jul 20222.4.6 · 29 Jun 20222.4.5 · 5 May 20202.4.4 · 10 Mar 20202.4.3 · 13 Feb 20202.4.2 · 5 Feb 20202.4.1 · 11 Nov 20192.4.0 · 16 Aug 20192.3.5 · 12 Jun 20192.3.4 · 17 Jul 20182.3.3 · 10 Sep 2017

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 88% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.5 88%
v2.4 9.7%
Older / other versions 2.3%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “8K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
8K–9K ≈8.6K

Crossed into this band 6 months ago; the previous band took 15 months to cross, which places it about 63% of the way through.

Install history since 14 Nov 2019

8K3 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ goodmansdyr
    1.7y ago

    This awesome plugin is f***ing AMAZING 😁. It saved my store!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ freecee
    3.3y ago

    Perfect plugin, awesome support. I love this plugin

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ artimondigital
    6.2y ago

    I don’t have advanced needs for SKUs, just to be able to automatically generate SKUs for all products and variants in bulk. And this plugin does it very well (at least for a couple hundreds of products)

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ johnyyw
    7.0y ago

    Works perfect! Saved me lot of time! + fixed last errors on search console, regardings to SKU! Keep up the good work! Thank you!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ gevcen
    7.0y ago

    Often updated to new version of WP & WooCommerce

    Read on wp.org ↗
  6. ★★★★★ Trongbach
    7.5y ago

    It saved me days of manual work!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ suyog3p
    7.8y ago

    Good Plugin if you want to save your time to add SKU for each variation. This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by suyog3p. Reason: spell mistake

    Read on wp.org ↗
  8. ★★★★★ preechamon
    8.0y ago

    No change. No difference from the previous SKU. waste of time

    Read on wp.org ↗

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 2026.04.23 Fix – Address wc_enqueue_js() deprecation warnings Fix – Address “translation loaded too early” warnings 2026.04.23
  2. — Version 2023.07.28 Misc – Add compatibility for WooCommerce High Performance Order Storage (HPOS) Misc – Require PHP 7.4+ and WordPress 5.6+ Dev – Add wc_sku_generator_variation_attributes filter to allow modification of variation attribut 2023.07.28
  3. — Version 2022.07.31 Misc – Rename to Product SKU Generator for WooCommerce 2022.07.31
  4. — Version 2022.03.01 Fix – Avoid uncaught error when saving variable products in certain environments Misc – Replace calls to deprecated is_ajax() with wp_doing_ajax() Misc – Require WooCommerce 3.9.4 or newer 2022.03.01
  5. — Version 2020.05.04 Misc – Add support for WooCommerce 4.1 2020.05.04
  6. — Version 2020.03.10 Misc – Add support for WooCommerce 4.0 2020.03.10

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 107 languages, 5 at 90% or more

Greek 100%
Ukrainian 100%
Danish 96%
Dutch 93%
Russian 93%
Spanish (Spain) 41%
Portuguese (Brazil) 35%
Japanese 29%
Swedish 22%
Arabic 9%
Bengali 9%
Bosnian 9%
Bulgarian 9%
Catalan 9%
Chinese (China) 9%
Croatian 9%
Czech 9%
Dutch (Formal) 9%
English (Australia) 9%
English (Canada) 9%
English (New Zealand) 9%
English (UK) 9%
Estonian 9%
Finnish 9%

Plus 83 more locales with partial translations.

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

8 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Automatically generate WooCommerce product SKUs from the product / attribute slugs and/or IDs."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 7 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 7 of 7 read like questions a user would type.
  • ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("if you have", "use this").
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 8 headings and 2 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 4,755 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text All 4 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-20 9K+ → 8K+ down after 455 days in tier
  2. 2025-02-19 8K+ → 9K+ up after 41 days in tier
  3. 2025-01-09 9K+ → 8K+ down after 260 days in tier
  4. 2024-04-24 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1739 days in tier
  5. 2019-07-21 6K+ → 10K+ up after 742 days in tier
  6. 2017-07-09 4K+ → 6K+ up after 331 days in tier
  7. 2016-08-12 3K+ → 4K+ up after 206 days in tier
  8. 2016-01-19 2K+ → 3K+ 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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Product SKU Generator for WooCommerce: 8K+ active installs, 4.9★ (20 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/woocommerce-product-sku-generator

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