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WP Voting

by Ko Min · Uncategorized

Also makes 1 other plugin · 60+ installs across the portfolio →

Site owner to add voting functionality to the blog posts.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews⚠ Open vulnerability

Health

D 46/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews · Open vulnerability

Active installs

50+

≈50 estimated

Momentum

-5%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “voting” isn't earning a slot. You list it, but you're not in the first 24 results for that search. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 67/100
Support 70/100
Security 65/100

46 health vs 58 average across 25,755 Uncategorized plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.2%

of downloads still active

At least 50 of 31.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
1.8
Last updated
14.4y ago
Added
2011-07-07 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.2.1
Requires PHP
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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.

24 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 5269 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 1/100

Tested up to WordPress 3.2.1; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 51/100

2.5★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.04★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 52/100

1 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 5269 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-5% vs prior 30d
31 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 201 · peaks are release surges

731 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #20,100 to #21,300, alongside the other plugins at 50+ 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 1 Nov 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2.51 Nov 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

461 Nov 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

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.

v1.8 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “50+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
50–60 ≈50

Crossed into this band 11 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 50.

Install history since 10 Sep 2015

501 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ marco.bolzan
    13.6y ago

    Very easy to use, it does what described. I’ve found a little bug into wpv-voting-func.php because with MySQL 5.5 into the bigint column can’t be insert an empty ” value: so changed only wpv_voting (post_id, author_id, vote_count) VALUES (%d, %d, 0) going to insert a zero number. If I could suggest an improvement : implement also the feature to ‘unvote’ just adding a button that add a -1 value to the count and adding two column to count the ok votes and the ko votes.

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  2. ★★★★★ eyeskiller
    13.8y ago

    Hey bro, your script is pretty nice, but is really simple to hack it. If you want to know more, contact me. I’ll send you how to hack it. Thank you. I believe that you’ll fix this bug soon. Regards, Lubos. ICQ: 465-883-542

    Read on wp.org ↗

Security history

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 open vulnerability affects the current version (1.8). 0 of 1 disclosed are patched.

  1. 2025-08-12 CVE-2025-49057 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.8 No patch available

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.

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

3 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Site owner to add voting functionality to the blog posts."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,963 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text All 1 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-10-21 40+ → 50+ up after 69 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-13 50+ → 40+ down after 200 days in tier
  3. 2026-01-25 60+ → 50+ down after 65 days in tier
  4. 2025-11-21 70+ → 60+ down after 152 days in tier
  5. 2025-06-22 80+ → 70+ down after 107 days in tier
  6. 2025-03-07 90+ → 80+ down after 5 days in tier
  7. 2025-03-02 80+ → 90+ up after 63 days in tier
  8. 2024-12-29 90+ → 80+ down after 3 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 Voting: 50+ active installs, 2.5★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-voting

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