AffiliateWP – Leaderboard

45 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

With only 1,000 active installs and a single rating, this is a niche add-on with a small but existing user base within the AffiliateWP ecosystem.

Update Freshness

10/25

The plugin was updated on 2025-05-08 and is tested against WordPress 6.8.5, showing the developer is keeping pace with recent core releases.

User Rating

3/15

A single perfect rating gives essentially no statistical confidence, so the 100/100 score is more a reflection of low sample size than validated user satisfaction.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads opened and zero resolved means there is no track record to evaluate, which is neutral at best and risky if you encounter a problem.

WP Compatibility

11/15

It requires PHP 7.4 and WordPress 5.2, a fairly modern baseline that should work on most current hosts without issue.

Scores higher than 1% of indexed plugins

About

Display an affiliate leaderboard on your website

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2025-05-08 8:03pm GMT

Requires WordPress 5.2+

Tested Up To 6.8.8

Requires PHP 7.4+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

AffiliateWP Leaderboard is a companion add-on for AffiliateWP that renders a shortcode-based ranking of your top affiliates by referrals, earnings, or visits. Site owners can drop the shortcode into any post, page, or widget area to publicly showcase the highest-performing partners. It is a display-only tool and does not handle affiliate tracking or payouts on its own.

Who It's For

This plugin is best suited for site owners already running AffiliateWP who want to gamify their program by publishing a public or members-only leaderboard of top earners or referrers. It works well for affiliate managers running referral contests, loyalty programs, or sales team incentive dashboards who need a low-effort way to surface rankings. Any business that relies on visible competition to drive affiliate output will benefit from it.

Who Should Skip It

If you are not already using AffiliateWP as your affiliate management platform, this plugin is useless to you because it depends entirely on that parent plugin's data. Site owners who need broader shortcode functionality, full page builders, or general content display tools should look at a more versatile plugin instead.

The Bottom Line

AffiliateWP Leaderboard does one thing and does it inside the AffiliateWP ecosystem, scoring 48.72/100 overall because its narrow audience and zero support history hold it back. It is a reasonable, focused add-on for existing AffiliateWP users wanting a leaderboard shortcode, but the lack of community validation means you are trusting a single developer. Skip it unless you are already running AffiliateWP and specifically need this widget.

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