HT Politic – For Political WordPress Themes / Website
by DevItems · Booking & Events
Also makes 15 other plugins · 155.7K+ installs across the portfolio →
HT Politic is a Political WordPress Plugin.
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Health
B 83/100
Few reviews
Active installs
200+
≈250 estimated
Momentum
+23%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “advisor”, “campaign” and “event” 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.
83 health vs 69 average across 1,839 Booking & Events plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.0%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 20K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Booking & Events plugin keeps 0.8%, across 941 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Booking & Events 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 1 release 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
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 82 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
1.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.04★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
30
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.5
Velocity
places per keyword, 19d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 19d
-0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| political your tag | #2 | #24 | 0 |
| candidate your tag | #21 | #24 | down 1 |
| advisor your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| campaign your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| event your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
11 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 9 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “advisor”, “campaign” and “event” 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 671 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ 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 21 Oct 2026.
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
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
5mo ago
latest release · v2.4.8 · 24 May 2026
39
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
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 “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 7 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 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ phraingck4.2y ago
This theme is not for newbies. It’s too complicated and the documentation is lacking. They desperately need a step-by-step guide to get a simple campaign website up and running. They need to recommend a simple theme that is easy to install and use. The one from recommended from ThemeForest is too big, too complicated and too lacking in support for newbies to use. Save your money and skip this plugin and recommended themes.
Read on wp.org ↗
Security history
via Wordfence IntelligenceAll 2 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (2.4.8). Sites still on an older version should update.
- Patched Medium · 6.4 HT Politic <= 2.4.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗2024-11-01 CVE-2024-51673 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 2.4.4 Patched in 2.4.5
Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.
CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8
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
5 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 Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("use this", "for woocommerce stores", "who want").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Elementor, Gutenberg, Contact Form 7 and 3 more.
- ✓ Headings and lists 6 headings and 3 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 7,563 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-04-05 300+ → 200+ down after 198 days in tier
- 2025-09-19 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-09-17 300+ → 200+ down after 169 days in tier
- 2025-04-01 400+ → 300+ down after 21 days in tier
- 2025-03-11 300+ → 400+ up after 28 days in tier
- 2025-02-11 400+ → 300+ down after 452 days in tier
- 2023-11-17 500+ → 400+ down after 144 days in tier
- 2023-06-26 600+ → 500+ down after 107 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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WP Events Manager 30K+ installs · 3.3★ · 1 shared tag B -
WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce 20K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B -
Event Organiser 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag B -
The Events Calendar Shortcode & Block 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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