Running audit
Advanced Categories Widget
- Pulling install history
- Scoring plugin health
- Checking ranking factors
- Reading recent reviews
- Writing your report
Plugin audit
Advanced Categories Widget
Advanced Categories Widget has urgent issues capping its growth.
Active installs
700+
Rating
5.0★
8 reviews
Downloads / 30d
89
Momentum
-30%
30d vs the 30d before
Against 3790 tracked Admin & Utilities plugins: health 48 vs 54 average · rating 4.34★ vs 3.86★.
What we found
Likely abandoned
CriticalNo update in 122 months. wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users avoid them.
What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.
Downloads are cooling
Needs work30-day download momentum is -30% while the Admin & Utilities category median is +19%. The decline is steeper than the market, which points at something plugin-specific.
What to do: A coordinated content + outreach push can re-ignite installs.
Review volume is thin
OpportunityOnly 8 ratings. A handful of reviews makes your star average fragile and weakens trust at install time.
What to do: Run a structured in-plugin review prompt and a review campaign.
Downloads, last 2 years
From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.
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