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Recipe Cards For Your Food Blog from Zip Recipes

by Igor Benic · SEO

Also makes 8 other plugins · 1.9K+ installs across the portfolio →

Zip Recipes is the best way to easily create a beautiful food blog with professional looking recipes that can be found by Google.

How scoring works →
90 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 94/100
Support 70/100

90 health vs 64 average across 1,223 SEO 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.

98 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 91/100
Listing tuning 100/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-25% vs prior 30d
57Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

654

now · peak 4.7K

65630d 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

Recipe Cards For You · #5687 you WP Recipe Maker · #719 Recipe Card Blocks L · #2161 FAQ Schema For Pages · #2581

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · 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.

656per 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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v8.2.8

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

8.2.8 · 3mo ago8.1.1 · 2.8y ago8.1.0 · 3.0y ago8.0.9 · 3.1y ago8.0.8 · 3.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 80% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v8.2 80%
v8.0 7.2%
v8.1 6.1%
v7.1 5.4%
v6.4 1.1%

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 2015-05-09 · 1,439 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. A declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Details

Version
8.2.8
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2014-12-07 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
4.8
Tested up to
7.0.0
Requires PHP
7.2

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

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

  1. 2026-06-26 CVE-2026-57663 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects <= 8.2.7 Patched in 8.2.8
  2. 2023-12-29 CVE-2023-52180 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects < 8.1.1 Patched in 8.1.1
  3. 2023-06-15 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects < 8.0.8 Patched in 8.0.8
  4. 2023-06-15 CVE-2023-35089 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 8.0.7 Patched in 8.0.8
  5. 2023-04-24 CVE-2023-31076 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 8.0.7 Patched in 8.0.7

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.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 20 languages, 3 at 90% or more

French (Belgium) 100%
French (Canada) 100%
French (France) 100%
Dutch 87%
Dutch (Belgium) 75%
German 75%
Danish 74%
Dutch (Formal) 74%
Pirate 74%
Spanish (Spain) 74%
German (Austria) 73%
Italian 72%
Swedish 60%
Norwegian (Bokmål) 44%
Polish 40%
Portuguese (Brazil) 33%
Portuguese (Portugal) 33%
Estonian 32%
Japanese 30%
German (Formal) 26%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-10-11 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2025-10-10 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2025-10-08 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-10-07 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-10-06 2K+ → 1K+ down after 509 days in tier
  6. 2024-05-15 3K+ → 2K+ down after 11 days in tier
  7. 2024-05-04 2K+ → 3K+ up after 31 days in tier
  8. 2024-04-03 3K+ → 2K+ down after 395 days in tier

Competes with

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