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How to use TrackWP
Step-by-step help for everything in your plan, from adding your first plugin to the action plan.
Video tour
Every feature in about six minutes. The articles below go step by step.
Getting started
- Add your plugin or themeStart tracking your WordPress.org plugin or theme from its address or slug, and learn what TrackWP checks on day one and every night after.
- Choose the searches you trackPick the WordPress.org searches to track for each product, read their daily positions and difficulty, and see how many keywords each plan allows.
- Watch your rivalsAdd the plugins or themes you compete with to compare their rank, installs and moves with yours every day, and hear when they release or stumble.
- See why you rank where you doUse the Rank Simulator to see the six factors WordPress.org search multiplies your score by, compare them with the results around you, and test changes.
- Set a growth goalSet a target for installs, rank, rating, ratings or weekly downloads, follow your progress every day, and see when you’ll get there at your current pace.
- Use the Chrome extensionSee rank, installs and search difficulty on WordPress.org, connect your account to mark your products and track things in one click, and use your plan’s tools where you already work.
Understanding the numbers
Alerts
Boost
- Rewrite your listing with predicted ranksBoostUse the listing optimizer to get new names, short descriptions and tags for your plugin, each run through the Rank Simulator for the searches you track.
- Find searches your rivals winBoostUse the keyword gap and keyword opportunities to find WordPress.org searches your rivals rank for, score your chance at each, and track them in one click.
- Track everything under your WordPress.org profileBoostConnect your WordPress.org author profile to see every plugin and theme you publish on one page, with totals, movers and what needs your attention.
- See how your plugin is used with the usage SDKBoostAdd TrackWP’s opt-in usage SDK to your plugin to see which WordPress and PHP versions your users run, how many sites join each day, and why people leave.
FullCharge
- Your weekly action planFullChargeEvery Monday, the action plan lists up to five moves for each plugin, ranked by the search positions they’re predicted to win, with drops explained.
- Track mentions in AI assistantsFullChargeAsk ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude your users’ questions every week, and see whether they name your product or your rivals, and which pages they cite.
- Connect Google Search ConsoleFullChargeConnect Google Search Console to see the Google searches that bring people to your own site, with clicks, impressions and positions next to your keywords.
- Answer support threads fasterFullChargeUse the support desk to see open WordPress.org support threads with reply deadlines, find threads ready to resolve, and draft replies from your readme.
- The REST APIFullChargeCreate API keys to read your products, keyword positions, listings and alerts from your own scripts, and send revenue figures back.
- Show a notice in your plugin’s dashboard without a releaseFullChargeWrite a notice in TrackWP and your plugin shows it in wp-admin on the sites that opted in. Change it or stop it any time, without shipping a new version.
Account
Can’t find it? Email hello@trackwp.com.