WPGatsby
by lightstrike · Uncategorized
WPGatsby is a free open-source WordPress plugin that optimizes your WordPress site to work as a data source for Gatsby. This plugin must be used in c …
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Health
D 48/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
3K+
≈3.5K estimated
Momentum
-23%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Under-ranked on “jamstack”. wp.org puts you #15; on merit you place #5. The plugins above you are winning on install count, not on rating or upkeep.
48 health vs 58 average across 25,734 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.3%
of downloads still active
At least 3K of 130.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,766 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.20.
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 1641 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.9.20; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 8 reviews, smoothed to 4.22★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 1641 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.
29
Momentum
Losing ground
-1.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 24d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 24d
-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| gatsbyjs your tag | #2 | #1 | 0 |
| gatsby your tag | #13 | #6 | 0 |
| jamstack your tag | #15 | #5 | down 2 |
| javascript your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| static site generator your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
3 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Under-ranked on “jamstack”. wp.org puts you #15; on merit you place #5. The plugins above you are winning on install count, not on rating or upkeep.
- One page off on “gatsby”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- “javascript” and “static site generator” 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 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 2.3K · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
4.5y ago
latest release · v2.3.3 · 4 May 2022
67
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 86% 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 “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 15 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 9 Feb 2021
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ televizor5.7y ago
Keep up the good work.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ mikexavier6.3y ago
Seems clear this is the new way to build a lot of sites, thanks to this kind of connection! I’ve built a few sites now using this plugin and the proof is in the pudding… great work and a great team wanting to push things forward and help make it happen.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Muhammad Muhsin6.3y ago
The combination of WordPress with Gatsby is a game-changer for multiple reasons. This plugin is the perfect glue for that combination, along with WPGraphQL! I have been following the development of this plugin from early on. The folks at Gatsby – Jason, Tyler have worked super hard on this plugin – and the results speak for themselves! Jamstack with WP and Gatsby is my go-to stack for when someone needs a fast site. I couldn’t be happier to see this plugin on the repo, making blazing fast sites accessible for more folks getting into this stack! Thanks so much to Gatsby folks and the whole community for putting out amazing work and keeping the community strong and helpful! To infinity and beyond! 🚀
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ pristas6.3y ago
This plugin enables you to write your own decoupled React frontend code very easily. Now you can write your own templates in React (Gatsby) and never look back.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ trevorblades6.3y ago
WPGatsby is a magical bit of software and an essential part of the WordPress/Gatsby integration. The value it adds to my local development environment with hot reloading content updates is a game changer.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ alexadark6.3y ago
This is a game-changer WPGraphQl + WPGatsby + gatsby-source-wordress = the stack of the future! 🚀 Thanks for making this possible! 😍
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ jacobarriola6.3y ago
This plugin (along with Gatsby Cloud) got incremental builds working on our Gatsby/WordPress integration. It cut the build time down from ~2 minutes to ~10 seconds. Along with the new gatsby-source-wordpress-experimental Gatsby plugin, the plugin imports links and images from WordPress to your Gatsby site. Thanks for all of the hard work! This topic was modified 5 years, 12 months ago by jacobarriola.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Henry6.3y ago
This plugin helps to connect the dots between GatsbyJS and WordPress. Therefore, makes it possible to to use WordPress as a headless CMS while channeling all the goodies coming from the Gatsby environment. I believe it will influence the way we create websites a lot and will be part of one of the major web stacks in the near future. Great plugin and great developer community around it!
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 9 languages, 0 at 90% or more
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 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "WPGatsby is a free open-source WordPress plugin that optimizes your WordPress site to work as a data source..."
- ! 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 Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 2 lists.
- ! Enough to quote 743 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 5 tags appear in the text ("gatsbyjs", "jamstack", "javascript", "static site generator" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-07-26 4K+ → 3K+ down after 320 days in tier
- 2024-09-09 5K+ → 4K+ down after 466 days in tier
- 2023-06-01 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-05-31 5K+ → 6K+ up after 19 days in tier
- 2023-05-12 6K+ → 5K+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2023-05-08 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-05-07 6K+ → 5K+ down after 217 days in tier
- 2022-10-02 5K+ → 6K+ up after 262 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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Simply Static – The Static Site Generator 30K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Headless Mode 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D - W WP Gatsby Markdown Exporter 100+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
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QuantCDN 100+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
Statixly – Static Site Generator 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
Shortcoder — Create Shortcodes for Anything 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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