Plugin Downloads

Most plugin authors host all their plugins on WordPress.org, and though this has huge advantages, it denies them of one thing: easy access to statistics of downloads. Recently, the WordPress team added a WordPress plugin information API to WordPress.org (which is very well documented here).

Using this API I've built a widget that shows up in my dashboard OR can be used as a shortcode, showing me the downloads and the total number and the average of the ratings for each plugin.

You can download the plugin here. To use it, you'll need to change your WordPress.org username the settings.

Once you've done that, it should look something like this on your dashboard:

Or like this in a post (this is a live view of my own plugin downloads):

Plugin	Last Update	Rating	# Ratings	Downloads
Google Analytics for WordPress	2011-10-12	83.00	895	2808896
Sociable	2012-02-01	82.60	989	1400020
WordPress SEO by Yoast	2012-01-25	91.00	1,193	964864
Robots Meta	2010-04-04	85.80	95	285122
Yoast Breadcrumbs	2010-01-31	88.40	98	148266
RSS Footer	2010-09-27	91.00	62	131409
Print Friendly and PDF Button	2012-01-09	87.80	110	109156
Clicky by Yoast	2011-06-25	95.60	46	66117
SlideShare for WordPress by Yoast	2011-07-21	80.00	12	36994
Canonical URL's	2010-11-24	80.00	10	29259
Users to CSV	2010-08-17	81.60	24	17694
Comment Redirect	2011-06-27	95.00	4	16830
WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM	2011-11-11	72.80	14	7460
RSS Shortcode	2010-05-09	65.00	4	6959
Email Commenters	2010-07-01	80.00	4	5015
Minimum Comment Length	2011-07-05	100.00	5	3873
Google Translate for Sociable	2010-05-16	100.00	1	3150
Bit.ly Shortlinks	2011-01-02	100.00	3	2244
BlogPressSeo by blogpressseo.com	2010-11-14	73.40	3	770
Google Buzz for Sociable	2010-04-12	40.00	4	380
Postmark Email for WordPress by Yoast	2011-12-12	100.00	1	226
DoMelhor for Sociable	2010-04-12	100.00	1	167
sm00sh for Sociable	2010-04-12	100.00	1	152
donor.com	2011-04-05	0.00	0	94
Averages		86.15	149.13	251,880
Totals			3,579	6,045,117