Introduction

This small tool was initially made to track WP repository ranking for Mega Forms plugin. I noticed the plugin isn't getting any traction compared to other solutions that are far lower in terms of quality, Thus, I decided I needed a way to track how's the plugin doing in WP repository search results, and try to improve the ranking based on the given results.

I did a small research and found that WordPress has a public API that I can use to pull data about any plugin. All I needed after that was 2 hours to create this small plugin to pull ranking data for the said plugin and present it in the admin dashboard. Later I thought it would be nice to share, especially that there are services out there charging a fee for similar data.

Installation

Step 1

• Download the plugin zip file
• Open the main plugin file wp-plugin-rank.php
• Change the constant WPPR_Name value to your plugin's name
• Change the constant WPPR_Slug value to your plugin's slug
• Save the file

Note: This tool uses your plugin tags as search keywords by default. If you want to add more keywords, add them to WPPR_Keywords in the same file.

Step 2

• Log into your WordPress site.
• Go to: Plugins > Add New.
• Upload the compressed version (zip) of the updated plugin
• Activate

Once installed and activated you should see a new sub menu in dashboard under the "tools" tab called Plugin Rank

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That's it, hope this tool can help you improve you plugin's SEO and get better results.