Running audit
Advanced Category Excluder
- Pulling install history
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- Checking ranking factors
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Plugin audit
Advanced Category Excluder
Advanced Category Excluder has urgent issues capping its growth.
Active installs
600+
Rating
3.3★
16 reviews
Downloads / 30d
133
Momentum
+13%
30d vs the 30d before
Against 779 tracked Content & Feeds plugins: health 41 vs 60 average · rating 3.53★ vs 3.82★.
What we found
Likely abandoned
CriticalNo update in 158 months. wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users avoid them.
What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.
Rating below category benchmark
Needs workYour adjusted 3.53★ trails the Content & Feeds average of 3.82★.
What to do: Close the gap with targeted UX fixes and review recovery.
Review volume is thin
OpportunityOnly 16 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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