Yellow Schedule
by yellowschedule · Booking & Events
Fast and Secure Scheduling (HIPAA Compliance). We streamline your entire appointments process, giving you more time to do what you do best.
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Health
D 44/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈19 estimated
Momentum
-25%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “appointment booking plugin for wordpress”, “appointment scheduling” and “appointments” 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.
44 health vs 69 average across 1,839 Booking & Events plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.3%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 3.3K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Booking & Events plugin keeps 0.8%, across 940 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.
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 6.8.
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 4232 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.1.42; the current branch is 6.8
3.7★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.08★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 4232 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| appointment booking plugin for wordpress your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| appointment scheduling your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| appointments your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| schedule your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| scheduling your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “appointment booking plugin for wordpress”, “appointment scheduling” and “appointments” 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 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 168 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ 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.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
11.6y ago
latest release · v1.1 · 31 Mar 2015
2
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 “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 19 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 20.
Install history since 17 Sep 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ cap10voodoo11.2y ago
This looks like a good piece of software. Too bad after you give them all your info the site is a broken back end with no support. Now this company has all my info and I have nothing to show for it. User Beware!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ cianuro11.3y ago
Love this. We use Yellow Schedule on our website to take bookings from clients who need hourly phone consultations. The appointment scheduler lets us take payments so that our time is not blocked off and the clients never shows up. This was a massive hassle before. Clients sometimes feel that because they didn’t pay for their slot, they can just not show up. That’s gone with the new booking system. Since Google Helpouts has gone, this is our new appointment calendar. Integrates perfectly with our WP site. Highly recommended!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ bpsupportreg11.6y ago
easy to set up and use which is exactly what I need and seeing extra bookings come in since starting with it. great so far
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2
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
6 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Fast and Secure Scheduling (HIPAA Compliance). We streamline your entire appointments process, giving you m..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
- ! 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 3 headings and 2 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 3,335 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "appointment scheduling" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-12 20+ → 10+ down after 11 days in tier
- 2026-10-01 10+ → 20+ up after 31 days in tier
- 2026-08-31 20+ → 10+ down after 177 days in tier
- 2026-03-07 10+ → 20+ up after 25 days in tier
- 2026-02-10 20+ → 10+ down after 436 days in tier
- 2024-12-01 30+ → 20+ down after 452 days in tier
- 2023-09-06 40+ → 30+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2023-08-30 30+ → 40+ up after 22 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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Appointment Booking Plugin – LatePoint | Calendar & Scheduling for WordPress 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Simply Schedule Appointments 50K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
SimplyBook.me – Booking and reservations calendar 30K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
Setmore 4K+ installs · 3.5★ · 2 shared tags B -
WPS Bookings for WooCommerce 3K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
Advanced Appointment Booking & Scheduling 3K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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