A slug in. A timeline out.
No plugin to install, no script on your site, no access to your users. Just public directory data, recorded properly.
- STEP 01
Add your plugin slug
Paste the slug from your WordPress.org URL. WPInsight pulls the full public profile immediately — version, installs, rating, downloads — and starts a history from that moment.
- STEP 02
Choose the keywords to watch
Add the searches you actually care about ranking for. Each one is checked against the WordPress.org directory on every sync and stored as a dated data point.
- STEP 03
Set the alerts that matter
Pick thresholds for rank drops, review scores and download swings. Everything that fires in a sweep arrives as one digest — not one email per event.
- STEP 04
Watch the trend build
Every sync adds to the record. Within a couple of weeks you can tie a release, a readme change or a review run to exactly what it did to your installs.
What happens on every sync.
The daily job is the heartbeat of the whole product.
We read the public directory
WPInsight queries the WordPress.org plugin API and search results by slug — exactly the data any visitor to your plugin page can see.
We store it with a date
Each sync writes a dated row. That's the whole trick: WordPress.org shows you today's number, we keep every number.
We compare against yesterday
Rank deltas, download pace and review changes all fall out of having a history to diff against.
We alert when it matters
Detectors run at the end of the same sync, so a rule always evaluates against data that is minutes old, never a day stale.
Nothing touches your users
WPInsight never asks you to install anything on a WordPress site. It doesn't read your database, your traffic or your customers. It reads the same public plugin directory pages anyone can open in a browser — it just does so on a schedule and keeps the history.
That also means you can track any plugin, not only your own. Which is exactly how competitor tracking works.