Chained Quiz

Evidence tier: live-bench plus official-documentation plus directory-metrics
WordPress.org slug: chained-quiz
Version audited: 1.4.0.1
Free price: $0 (directory listing describes the core as fully functional free)

Directory health (2026-08-03)

Metric	Value
Active installs	1,000
Rating	98 / 100 (38 ratings)
Last updated	2026-06-09
Tested to	WordPress 7.0.2
Requires PHP	8.0
Support threads / resolved	1 / 0

Rubric score

Final score: 72.14

Category	Score	Weight
Quiz depth	6	25%
Author and learner UX	6	20%
Logic, results and reporting	9	20%
Integrations and data ownership	8	10%
Value	9	10%
Maintenance and trust	6.76	15%

Maintenance criteria: update recency 10, active-install base 4, rating 9.8, support resolution 0, tested-current compatibility 10.

Live benchmark coverage

• Benchmark surface: /chained/benchmark/ — Standard Ten Q1–Q9 supported.
• Core benchmark: /chained/benchmark-core/ — Q1–Q6 canonical Core Six as radio questions linked with goto=next; Q4 is the canonical nitrogen question.
• Signature quiz: /chained/signature/ — first answer branches to a Physics question or a Chemistry text question, both paths converging on a shared finish.

Free-tier coverage: 9 of 10 questions ok, 1 unsupported (Q10 ordering), 0 pro-gated. Q10 is unsupported because Chained Quiz has no native ordering question type. Free-tier checkbox multiple-answer, true/false radio, and exact text answer were verified for Q7–Q9.

Observed result anomaly

The browser attempt completed and displayed the native result:

Score: 10 / 9 (100%)

This is the plugin’s own displayed score, reproduced exactly as observed.

Runtime weight

Core benchmark page load:

Metric	Value
Resources	8
JS files / bytes	5 / 54,501
CSS files / bytes	1 / 531
Total transfer	112,422
DOM nodes	155
jQuery	none detected

Officially documented capabilities

From the WordPress.org listing and readme:

• Answer-dependent branching (goto logic)
• Unlimited quizzes, questions and results
• Single-choice, multiple-choice and open-end questions
• Points and result bands
• CSV answer export
• Mailing-list integrations

Roster status

Chained Quiz remains on the live-bench roster. The 2026-08-03 roster-decision review found no challenger with both a complete higher rubric score and a live working free-tier quiz, so no amendment was made.

Evidence sources

• showcase/evidence/audit-scores.json
• showcase/evidence/coverage-matrix.json
• showcase/evidence/coverage/chained.json
• showcase/evidence/wporg-snapshot.json
• showcase/evidence/incumbent-claims.json
• showcase/evidence/runtime-weight.json
• showcase/evidence/roster-decision.json
• showcase/content/chained/notes.md