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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:

plugin-downloads-db

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

PluginLast UpdateRating# RatingsDownloads
Google Analytics for WordPress2011-10-1283.008912755284
Sociable2012-02-0182.609881387294
WordPress SEO by Yoast2012-01-2590.801,165936544
Robots Meta2010-04-0485.8095284056
Yoast Breadcrumbs2010-01-3188.2097147190
RSS Footer2010-09-2791.0062130854
Print Friendly and PDF Button2012-01-0987.80108107502
Clicky by Yoast2011-06-2595.604565549
SlideShare for WordPress by Yoast2011-07-2180.001236810
Canonical URL's2010-11-2480.001029139
Users to CSV2010-08-1781.602417602
Comment Redirect2011-06-2795.00416664
WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM2011-11-1172.80147348
RSS Shortcode2010-05-0965.0046889
Email Commenters2010-07-0180.0044926
Minimum Comment Length2011-07-05100.0053846
Google Translate for Sociable2010-05-16100.0013079
Bit.ly Shortlinks2011-01-02100.0032220
BlogPressSeo by blogpressseo.com2010-11-1473.403766
Google Buzz for Sociable2010-04-1240.004378
Postmark Email for WordPress by Yoast2011-12-12100.001214
DoMelhor for Sociable2010-04-12100.001165
sm00sh for Sociable2010-04-12100.001152
donor.com2011-04-050.00093
Averages 86.04147.58247,690
Totals  3,5425,944,564

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