WP Grade Comments
by Boone Gorges · Education
WP Grade Comments makes it easy for instructors who use WordPress in a course setting to give private feedback and/or grades to post authors, all with …
69 health vs 65 average across 145 Education 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.
Well optimized
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
29
now · peak 159
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “80+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-08-21 70+ → 80+ up after 172 days in tier
- 2025-03-02 80+ → 70+ down after 148 days in tier
- 2024-10-05 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-10-04 80+ → 70+ down after 18 days in tier
- 2024-09-16 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-09-15 80+ → 70+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2024-09-08 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-09-07 80+ → 70+ down after 44 days in tier
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