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SFN Easy FAQ Manager

by curtismchale · Chat & Support

Also makes 1 other plugin · 22K+ installs across the portfolio →

Uses custom post types and taxonomies to manage an FAQ section for your site.

How scoring works →
79 Health · B
Maintenance 84/100
Rating quality 79/100
Support 70/100

79 health vs 63 average across 672 Chat & Support plugins

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.

89 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 95/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 66/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+29% vs prior 30d
44Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

449

now · peak 2.5K

44530d downloads · Aug 26

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

SFN Easy FAQ Manager · #4768 you Accordion FAQ · #951 Apollo13 Framework E · #1241 WebMan Amplifier · #5159

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.4Stars · Aug 26

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.

223per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 53% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.0 53%
v1.331 47%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-21 · 1,457 observations

2KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
2.0.4.4
Last updated
7mo ago
Added
2011-02-06 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
8.0

Recent reviews

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  1. ellice909
    10.5y ago

    pretty useful on most websites i design. easy to use.

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  2. Cees Rijken
    11.2y ago

    This plugin actually looked promising and although it has not been updated for a while, it works in WP 4.1 However, the recent FAQ-widget just points back to the FAQ-page and is not showing actual recent FAQ’s.

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  3. Gangsar Swapurba
    12.5y ago

    nice works plugin very useful thumb up!

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  4. nicerthannew
    12.5y ago

    I am moving content from Google sites to WordPress and this made the FAQ migration a matter of cut and paste.

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  5. Adam Pery
    12.6y ago

    Thanks for this excellent plugin

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  6. Bobby Brooks
    12.7y ago

    Normally I avoid anything coded in FL, but this plugin rocks. Gave me a way to manage FAQs quickly and even better gave my client a way to add new ones without fear of breaking them.

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  7. Robert Bardall
    12.8y ago

    …if you have more than one FAQ category and want to separate them by category, for example: Category Heading FAQ Category Heading FAQ Category Heading FAQ and so on… It outputs each FAQ section as a div with an ID: <div id="faq-block">FAQs</div> It goes against standards to have multiple divs with the same ID on a page so it fails W3C validation. It’s easy enough to change it to a class in the plugin’s PHP, CSS and JS files, but since I’m really only using base functionality of the plugin, I don’t know what effect it may carry through some of the more advanced features. It looks as if there are some navigation features that may be broken by doing this, but I don’t really have time to dig into it further right now. Seriously, I don’t know what the cross section of people that care about this kind of thing vs. people that don’t is around WP, and some may call this nit-picking, but I do care for any sites that I build. I figure others may care as well.

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  8. aspirenetwork
    13.1y ago

    So far its best among other FAQ plugins. Just need some more support in defining the layout.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 44 languages, 0 at 90% or more

German 59%
French (France) 56%
Russian 20%
Romanian 8%
Dutch 5%
English (Canada) 5%
English (UK) 5%
Italian 5%
Finnish 4%
Hindi 4%
Japanese 4%
Punjabi 4%
Ukrainian 4%
Azerbaijani 3%
Cebuano 3%
Dutch (Formal) 3%
English (South Africa) 3%
Hebrew 3%
Polish 3%
Spanish (Spain) 3%
Swedish 3%
Afrikaans 2%
Assamese 2%
Croatian 2%

Plus 20 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-03-21 3K+ → 2K+ down after 568 days in tier
  2. 2023-08-31 4K+ → 3K+ down

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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