WP-Stats

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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

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

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

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

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.

1. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   9.8y ago

   Useful for blogs with a lot of posts!

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2. ★★★★★ Dinamicore

   9.8y ago

   Worked right away. Should be very informative for heavy bloggers. I don´t see a reason nor and argument for the 1 star reviews. Rate it 5 stars.

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3. ★★★★★ Cristina

   10.1y ago

   Plugin works until you try to modify the settings. Author refuses to do his due diligence to fix the problems.

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4. ★★★★★ Mike V. Gorbunov

   10.9y ago

   I don’t understand previous bad reviews on that plugin as it works fine. It’s very simple and informative, so I recommend it to everyone.

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5. ★★★★★ Beelal24

   11.4y ago

   Totally unimportant

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6. ★★★★★ John Conner

   11.8y ago

   Contains problems which couldn’t be solved with reason ignorance.

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7. ★★★★★ glen73

   12.5y ago

   What’s with the smiley face at the very bottom of my pages about? I traced it back to this plugin after stressing and worrying for a week it was a hack. Why do this? and why not disclose you do this? Pissed me off big time. A lot of people put a lot of hours into their sites and you play these games with pissy little hidden code!!! I’m glad I deleted this plugin, useless and then you go and graffiti my fence!! You lost trust by this big time. Anyone considering this plugin,…who knows what’s in this from this shifty, shaded mob. Good ridence!!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.0.0 FIXED: Recent Posts and Most Commented did not honour a site’s own posts_where filter. get_posts() suppresses filters by default, so a membership or paywall plugin hiding published posts had them listed on the public sta 3.0.0

3 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. High · 7.2 WP-Stats <= 2.56 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2026-08-07 CVE-2026-19794 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.56 Patched in 2.56.1
2. High · 7.2 WP-Stats <= 2.56 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2026-08-07 CVE-2026-66426 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.56 Patched in 2.56.1
3. Medium · 4.3 WP-Stats < 2.52 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2015-06-17 CVE-2015-10001 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects < 2.52 Patched in 2.52

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.5

Translated into 62 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Plus 38 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-04-13 3K+ → 2K+ down after 3 days in tier
2. 2026-04-10 2K+ → 3K+ up after 8 days in tier
3. 2026-04-02 3K+ → 2K+ down after 537 days in tier
4. 2024-10-12 4K+ → 3K+ down after 429 days in tier
5. 2023-08-10 5K+ → 4K+ down after 269 days in tier
6. 2022-11-14 6K+ → 5K+ 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).

• Statify 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Connect Matomo – Analytics Dashboard for WordPress 60K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
• Statify – Extended Evaluation 20K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• Search Meter 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B
• Clicky Analytics 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
• WP Server Health Stats 9K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A

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WP-Stats: 2K+ active installs, 2.6★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-stats