Plugin Downloads

Version:1.2.1
Requires:2.6
Tested up to:2.8.2
# Downloads:8,510
# Ratings:7
Rating:
Price:Free
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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:

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

Plugin Last Update Rating # Ratings Downloads
WordPress SEO by Yoast2013-04-1693.802,7654,781,388
Google Analytics for WordPress2013-04-0585.801,2154,615,474
Robots Meta2010-04-0485.60103324,668
Print Friendly and PDF Button2013-03-2986.80204282,000
Yoast Breadcrumbs2010-01-3188.00117195,696
RSS Footer2010-09-2792.2071155,854
Clicky by Yoast2012-12-2192.4068149,049
SlideShare for WordPress by Yoast2011-07-2175.401347,654
Canonical URL's2010-11-2474.201435,307
Comment Redirect2011-06-2888.80926,266
Users to CSV2010-08-1783.002622,100
WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM2012-11-2971.002215,268
RSS Shortcode2010-05-0972.0059,767
Plugin Downloads2009-07-3091.4078,522
WordPress SEO News2012-12-1893.40127,932
Email Commenters2010-07-0173.4066,241
Minimum Comment Length2011-07-0680.0095,210
Bit.ly Shortlinks2011-01-0288.6075,109
Google Translate for Sociable2010-05-16100.0014,098
Postmark Email for WordPress by Yoast2011-12-1275.0041,274
DoMelhor for Sociable2010-04-12100.001292
sm00sh for Sociable2010-04-12100.001257
donor.com2011-04-0520.001250
Custom Field Finder2013-04-180.000125
Averages 90.65195.04445,825
Totals  4,68110,699,801