WP-Stats

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

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.

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.

37 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 7 listed. 30 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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.

Crossed into this band 7 months ago; the previous band took 18 months to cross, which places it about 63% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   10.0y ago

   Useful for blogs with a lot of posts!

   Read on wp.org ↗
2. ★★★★★ Dinamicore

   10.0y 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

   10.3y 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

   11.1y 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

   11.5y ago

   Totally unimportant

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6. ★★★★★ John Conner

   12.0y ago

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

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7. ★★★★★ glen73

   12.7y 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
2. — Version 3.0.1 NEW: A wp_stats_needs_styles filter, for code that renders the statistics where WP-Stats cannot see it coming. 3.0.0 loads the stylesheet only where it finds a [page_stats] shortcode or the block in the post being viewed 3.0.1

All 3 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (3.0.1). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched 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 Affects <= 2.56 Patched in 2.56.1
2. Patched 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 Affects <= 2.56 Patched in 2.56.1
3. Patched Medium · 4.3 WP-Stats < 2.52 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2015-06-17 CVE-2015-10001 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects < 2.52 Patched in 2.52

Translated into 63 languages, 3 at 90% or more

Plus 39 more locales with partial translations.

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-04-13 3K+ → 2K+ down after 548 days in tier
2. 2024-10-12 4K+ → 3K+ down after 429 days in tier
3. 2023-08-10 5K+ → 4K+ down after 269 days in tier
4. 2022-11-14 6K+ → 5K+ down after 343 days in tier
5. 2021-12-06 7K+ → 6K+ down after 431 days in tier
6. 2020-10-01 8K+ → 7K+ down after 406 days in tier
7. 2019-08-22 10K+ → 8K+ down after 1163 days in tier
8. 2016-06-15 20K+ → 10K+ 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).

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WP-Stats: 2K+ active installs, 2.6★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-stats