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Custom Review

Custom Review has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

10+

Rating

2.0★

1 reviews

Downloads / 30d

40

Momentum

-46%

30d vs the 30d before

Against 5896 tracked Admin & Utilities plugins: health 43 vs 56 average · rating 3.75★ vs 3.80★.

What we found

1 critical 1 to fix 2 opportunity
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Likely abandoned

Critical

No update in 63 months. wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users avoid them.

What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.

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Downloads are cooling

Needs work

30-day download momentum is -46% while the Admin & Utilities category median is +8%. 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.

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Review volume is thin

Opportunity

Only 1 rating. 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.

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Readme fails 2 of 8 AI readiness checks

Opportunity

AI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: says what it does and names who it is for. Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.

What to do: Rewrite the readme so each failed check passes: say the job in the first line, answer real questions in the FAQ, name who it is for and what it works with, and use headings and lists. For the same check on your plugin's own website, run the free AI visibility scan from AgentVania.

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Downloads, last 2 years

From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.

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