Changelog

What’s new in TrackWP

New tools, improvements and fixes, newest first.

Oct 30, 2026New
Security, version history and download stats for every plugin and theme
Every plugin and theme page now has three pages of its own, linked from tabs at the top:
- Security: is it safe? Every known vulnerability from WPVulnerability with its severity and the version that fixed it, whether any affects the current version, and how the plugin is looked after: releases, "Tested up to" and support.
- Versions: every release with its date, from WordPress.org's SVN, and what the readme's changelog says about each.
- Downloads: two years of official daily downloads, totals by month and year, and the busiest days with the releases behind them.
Improved: themes now get comparison pages in the sitemap from 1,000 active installs, not only from 10,000.
Oct 28, 2026New
Change your plugin's dashboard notice without a release
FullCharge: write a notice in TrackWP and your plugin shows it in wp-admin on the sites that opted in to the usage SDK. Announce a new version, a sale or a survey, then change it or stop it any time, with no new release on WordPress.org.
- Plain text, an optional button and your plugin's own icon, previewed as it looks in wp-admin.
- On the Dashboard, or also on the Plugins screen and your plugin's own screens, with an optional end date.
- Every notice can be closed and stays closed. Views and clicks aren't counted.
Turn it on from your product's Usage data page; it needs version 1.1.0 or later of the SDK. See Show a notice in your plugin's dashboard.

Renamed: the SDK file is now trackwp-insights.php (version 1.2.0), spelled like TrackWP. The old download address redirects, and sites that already allowed usage data keep their choice when they update.

Fixed: the SDK file's built-in default address pointed at our development server. The setup snippet always named the right one, so only plugins that left api_url out were affected.
Oct 26, 2026Improved
TrakWP is now TrackWP
- A new name: TrakWP is now TrackWP. Your account, products, keywords, alerts and plan are unchanged, and you sign in the same way.
- Webhooks: signed webhooks now send X-TrackWP-Signature and X-TrackWP-Timestamp. If your receiver checks the old X-TrakWP-… headers, update it to the new names.
- Usage SDK: the PHP class is now \TrackWP\Insights\Client. Download the SDK again from your product's Usage page and update the call in your plugin.
Oct 25, 2026Improved
Plus is now Boost, Complete is now FullCharge
- New names, same plans: Plus is now Boost and Complete is now FullCharge. Starter keeps its name. Prices, limits and features haven't changed, and nothing changes for current subscribers.
- An icon for each plan, in colour: a green sprout for Starter, an indigo rocket with an orange flame for Boost and a fully charged green battery for FullCharge. It shows next to the plan's name on the pricing page, in billing, on locked features and in the Chrome extension.
Oct 22, 2026New
The Chrome extension connects to your account
The TrackWP extension now shows your own data on WordPress.org, not just the public numbers. Connect it from Settings → Chrome extension on any plan.
- Every plan: your products and rivals are marked in search results and lists, the card on a plugin page shows its recent rank and downloads, and you can track a plugin, watch a rival or track a search in one click.
- Boost: where you and your rivals rank in each search, what would move you up, a year of history and the rival radar on rivals' pages.
- FullCharge: reply deadlines and threads ready to resolve in your support forum, reply drafts from your readme, this week's moves, why a search fell, and how often AI assistants name you.
Without an account it still shows rank, installs and how hard each search is. See Use the Chrome extension.
Oct 22, 2026Improved
A refund policy, this changelog and a status page
- Payments and refunds: the pricing page answers questions on the trial, tax, cancelling, refunds, plan changes and invoices, and the refund and cancellation policy has the full terms.
- Changelog: this page, so you can see what changed and when.
- Status: the status page shows whether today's rankings, keyword checks and alerts are on time.
- Error pages: a missing page now offers a search and the main pages, instead of a bare error.
Oct 22, 2026Improved
The Chrome extension rides out WordPress.org redesigns
- Never hidden: when WordPress.org changes a page so TrackWP's usual spot is gone, the card or panel waits in a small box in the corner instead of disappearing.
- Fixed without an update: where the extension looks on each page now comes from TrackWP every few hours, so a fix reaches your browser by itself, without waiting for a new version in the Chrome Web Store.
- Checked every hour: we load WordPress.org's plugin, theme, search and support pages hourly and hear about a change before you do.
- Theme searches now tell TrackWP when there's a next page of results.
Oct 22, 2026Improved
Downloads a day now means a normal day
- A typical day: downloads a day is now the middle of the last two weeks, everywhere it appears: listings, the catalog, your dashboard, the Chrome extension, exports and emails. A release used to make a plugin look 15 to 30 times bigger for a day or two, because every site that updates downloads it again.
- The release day still shows: when the newest day is far above normal, it appears beside the typical one, for example "924K on Oct 21, a release".
- Fairer comparisons: sorting the catalog by downloads, niche sizes, keyword difficulty's demand and estimated installs all use the typical day, so a rival's release doesn't skew them.
Oct 22, 2026Fixed
Room for your own first keyword on Starter
A new product starts with keywords from its WordPress.org tags. On Starter those used to fill all three keyword slots, so the first keyword you typed asked you to upgrade. New Starter products now start with two, leaving room for one of your own.
Oct 21, 2026New
Use your own AI keys
Settings → AI keys takes your own OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, Claude and Perplexity keys. Each key is checked when you save it and stored encrypted. Review analyses, listing copy and reply drafts write with your own OpenAI or Groq key when you add one, and your own key for an assistant switches it on for AI answers.
Oct 21, 2026New
Alternatives, comparisons, directory statistics and guides
- Alternatives: every plugin and theme page links to the listings most like it, with a page of its own.
- Comparisons: any two listings side by side, from rank and installs to ratings and support.
- Directory statistics: the whole WordPress.org directory in numbers, updated daily, at /statistics.
- Guides: how plugin search ranks plugins, how to choose a name and tags, and what to check when downloads fall, at /guides.
Oct 21, 2026New
A setup checklist for your plan, and a help centre
- Setup checklist: the dashboard lists the next steps for your plan, from adding your product to the tools Boost and FullCharge add, and ticks them off as you go.
- Help centre: articles on every part of TrackWP, from adding your product to the action plan, searchable at /help.
Oct 20, 2026New
SEO tools and a weekly action plan
- SEO page: a listing audit with a score, the listing optimizer with predicted ranks, keyword gap against your rivals, Google rankings, AI answer visibility and a Search Console link.
- Action plan (FullCharge): up to five moves a week for each plugin, with the rank change each should bring where it can be predicted, and how last week's plan worked out.
- Drop diagnosis (FullCharge): when one of your searches falls, what changed on your listing and which plugins climbed past you.
- Release health (FullCharge): a check on new support topics and reviews after each release.
Oct 19, 2026New
Portfolios, goals, badges and keyword difficulty
- Author portfolio: every product under a WordPress.org profile on one page, with public author pages.
- Keyword difficulty: how hard a search is to rank for, on every tracked keyword and as a free tool.
- Goals: targets for installs, rank, rating, reviews or weekly downloads, with a projected date.
- README badges: rank, installs, downloads, rating and more for any listing.
- Change log and alerts: renames, new tags and releases on every listing, security alerts for your products, and alerts when a rival stumbles.
- Usage data (Boost): opt-in usage from your own plugin through the TrackWP Insights SDK.
Oct 17, 2026New
Boost and FullCharge tools
- Alerts: instant email alerts on Boost; Slack, Discord and webhook alerts on FullCharge.
- Rival radar: rivals' releases and listing changes.
- Support desk (FullCharge): your open WordPress.org threads with reply deadlines and drafts.
- Exports and reports: CSV exports and printable reports from Boost.
- API (FullCharge): your products, keyword positions and alerts from your own scripts.
Oct 16, 2026New
Daily rankings for every plugin and theme
The first version of TrackWP: a daily snapshot of the whole WordPress.org directory, a page for every plugin and theme with its rank, installs and downloads, the Rank Simulator built on WordPress.org's own search scoring, and tracking for your products, keywords and rivals.