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	84.00	975	3123405
WordPress SEO by Yoast	2012-05-23	92.60	1,597	1285350
Robots Meta	2010-04-04	86.00	96	297101
Yoast Breadcrumbs	2010-01-31	88.80	108	161883
RSS Footer	2010-09-27	91.20	64	137957
Print Friendly and PDF Button	2012-01-09	89.00	144	125048
Clicky by Yoast	2012-04-04	96.20	54	92003
Enhanced WP Contact Form	2009-07-17	49.60	27	85946
SlideShare for WordPress by Yoast	2011-07-21	80.00	12	39406
Canonical URL's	2010-11-24	78.40	13	30670
Blog Icons	2009-07-30	87.20	11	19504
Users to CSV	2010-08-17	82.40	25	19046
Comment Redirect	2011-06-27	95.00	4	18802
WordPress-to-lead for Salesforce CRM	2011-11-11	67.00	17	8857
RSS Shortcode	2010-05-09	72.00	5	7745
Plugin Downloads	2009-07-30	91.40	7	7703
Email Commenters	2010-07-01	80.00	4	5590
Minimum Comment Length	2011-07-05	97.20	7	4194
Google Translate for Sociable	2010-05-16	100.00	1	3971
Bit.ly Shortlinks	2011-01-02	100.00	5	2728
Postmark Email for WordPress by Yoast	2011-12-12	90.00	2	443
DoMelhor for Sociable	2010-04-12	100.00	1	205
sm00sh for Sociable	2010-04-12	100.00	1	177
donor.com	2011-04-05	0.00	0	129
Averages		88.78	132.50	228,244
Totals			3,180	5,477,863