DocumentCloud

51 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

Around 1,000 active installs is modest, but it is a reasonable footprint for a niche tool tied to a specific external platform.

Update Freshness

17/25

A recent update on 2025-09-24 and testing against WordPress 6.8.5 signal an actively maintained plugin, though the low minimum requirement of WordPress 5.0 is unusually permissive.

User Rating

2/15

A single rating producing a score of 16/15 reflects strong feedback but is statistically thin, so the 80/100 rating should be read with caution.

Support Health

8/15

Zero support threads and zero resolutions make support health impossible to verify, though the absence of issues can also mean the plugin simply works.

WP Compatibility

11/15

Tested with WordPress 6.8.5 and requiring only WordPress 5.0, the compatibility score of 75/15 suggests broad version coverage, though no PHP version is declared which is a minor transparency gap.

Scores higher than 4% of indexed plugins

About

Embed DocumentCloud resources in WordPress content.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★ 4/5

Last Updated 2025-09-24 3:41pm GMT

Requires WordPress 5.0+

Tested Up To 6.8.8

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

DocumentCloud is a WordPress plugin that lets publishers embed DocumentCloud documents directly into posts and pages. It provides a lightweight bridge to the DocumentCloud platform, allowing journalists and researchers to surface primary source documents alongside their writing. In practice, you paste a DocumentCloud URL into the editor and the plugin renders the viewer inline.

Who It's For

This plugin fits newsrooms, investigative reporters, legal document publishers, and transparency-focused organizations that already publish through DocumentCloud and want a simple way to surface those documents inside WordPress. It is also a reasonable choice for academic, nonprofit, or government sites that use DocumentCloud as their document repository and need a clean embed path. Small standalone blogs with no DocumentCloud workflow will get little out of it.

Who Should Skip It

If you are not already using DocumentCloud to host and annotate your documents, this plugin has almost no value, since there is no upload or storage functionality on its own. General-purpose document or file managers will serve everyday needs far better.

The Bottom Line

DocumentCloud does one job, embedding DocumentCloud documents in WordPress, and it appears to do it competently with recent maintenance and clean compatibility. The overall quality score of 54.43/100 is held back by a very small user base, a single rating, and no visible support activity. It is a sensible pick for established DocumentCloud users and easy to skip for everyone else.

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