I have some questions regarding WordPress plugins or themes active installs and I hope to get my answers.
1. Does WordPress counts locals as active installs? Because as you know plugins and themes can be installed and used in local development or testing sites and can send update requests to the WordPress, so does WordPress counts them in the active install numbers?
2. Does WordPress pingback a site that checks for plugin or theme updates?
As you know a developer can send fake requests as update requests to the server via a fake site address, so how WordPress detects that is a fake request? What information WordPress active install checks to ensure that is a real request?
I see some stranges in wp.org/plugins and found some plugins that have fewer downloads but have large active installs when you check them with competitors.
For example plugin A with about 12000 downloads has 3000 active installs and plugin B with about 40000 downloads has 3000 active installs.
Also, please note that plugin A reached this active installs in a short period! with fewer features compared to others. and here I think that plugin A can send fake requests to wp.org to increase its active installs!
It is a marketing strategy to increase active installs of a plugin and most of the companies can invest in it to increase it.
Please clear me and all developers that have questions regarding it.
Thanks.
]]>For some reason, the active installations count displayed on the www.remarpro.com page for our plugin and the count displayed when searching for the plugin within WP-Admin > Plugins > Add New are different.
See screenshot of a side-by-side compare
https://cl.ly/c20f4386cc7a
What causes this? Is there something in the readme that we may need to update?
]]>I’m a WordPress developer and I want to know which algorithm does WordPress use for calculating active installs of plugins that shows on the plugin stats on WordPress repository.
WordPress shows 3000+ active install for my solid and satisfied plugin with more than 120 five stars reviews (4.8 as average) but shows 5000+ active installs for another simple and buggy plugin that have less than 10 reviews (3.6 as average).
How is it possible?! Also based on my stats, my plugin active installs should be more than 7K.
Can someone please explain about it? Look forward to hear back from you soon.
Regards,
Hossein Rafiei
Can someone please clarify for me: will active installation counted if user changed source code of plugin? I mean user download plugin then change few lines of source code(not plugin credentials, not readme) and then activate it. In this case will it increase number of active installs?
]]>Can you let me know how often these active installs and active versions are
calculated?
Also do I have to wait till 200 active installs (Next available figure) too
see any updates on active versions.