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WP Site Verification tool

by Paul Bearne · Uncategorized

Also makes 3 other plugins · 5.0K+ installs across the portfolio →

A tool to enable verification of site ownership via file or meta tag.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
82 Health · B
Maintenance 99/100
Rating quality 70/100
Support 70/100

82 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized 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.

90 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 56/100
Listing tuning 100/100

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

+36% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

288

now · peak 1.2K

29630d 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

WP Site Verification · #6830 you Transients Manager · #1199 Foxtool All-in-One: · #2666 Cron Logger · #5405

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.7Stars · 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.

296per 1k installs · Aug 26

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

3mo ago

latest release · v1.0.10

11

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.10 · 3mo ago1.0.9 · 9mo ago1.0.8 · 3.8y ago1.0.7 · 4.4y ago1.0.6 · 7.1y ago1.0.5 · 10.2y ago1.0.4 · 12.4y ago1.0.3 · 13.0y ago1.0.2 · 13.0y ago1.0.0 · 13.0y ago1.0.1 · 13.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install history · since 2015-09-09 · 1,429 observations

1KInstalls · 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
1.0.10
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2013-09-13 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.6
Tested up to
7.0.0
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. 3WT
    9.9y ago

    Weak plugin. It allows you to do just one verification. This topic was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by 3WT.

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  2. toma-tomsk
    10.1y ago

    After long unsucessfull attempts to add meta for yandex and pinterest I was happy to find this plugin which has a very light interface and works great! Thank you! Tamara

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  3. Erida
    11.7y ago

    Thank you for the plugin, as for me, it’s really the best one for verification! And I have an improvement idea: I’d like to add not one but 2 and more files in case if I need to verify 2 and more services at the same site (i.e. Google and Trustwave). And Google can be veryfied by file but Trustwave by meta tag 🙂

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  4. Paul Bearne
    12.4y ago

    It does what it says on the tin and nothing else

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  5. julitasoup
    12.9y ago

    I attempted to install this plugin multiple times and was hopeful that it would function properly; it is the only one I found on search that did what I needed it to do and had a very recent update only 3 weeks ago. Unfortunately, each time I tried to install, it returned a fatal error. I clear my browser cache, tried it in different browsers, all to no avail. I am disappointed and hope it gets fixed as it looked to be a very useful plugin. As it is now, it is completely useless.

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  6. liton1980
    13.0y ago

    As many websites need verification, this plugin is so helpful to make it easy. Thanks for developing it.

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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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-02-05 2K+ → 1K+ down after 22 days in tier
  2. 2024-01-14 3K+ → 2K+ down after 12 days in tier
  3. 2024-01-02 4K+ → 3K+ down after 8 days in tier
  4. 2023-12-25 5K+ → 4K+ down after 12 days in tier
  5. 2023-12-13 6K+ → 5K+ down after 4 days in tier
  6. 2023-12-09 7K+ → 6K+ down after 12 days in tier
  7. 2023-11-27 8K+ → 7K+ down after 30 days in tier
  8. 2023-10-28 7K+ → 8K+ up after 7 days in tier

Competes with

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