Running audit
Popping Sidebars and Widgets Light
- Pulling install history
- Scoring plugin health
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- Reading recent reviews
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Plugin audit
Popping Sidebars and Widgets Light
Popping Sidebars and Widgets Light has urgent issues capping its growth.
Active installs
90+
Rating
2.5★
4 reviews
Downloads / 30d
117
Momentum
+27%
30d vs the 30d before
Against 1633 tracked Booking & Events plugins: health 39 vs 68 average · rating 3.55★ vs 3.77★.
What we found
Open security vulnerability
CriticalA known unpatched vulnerability is recorded against this plugin.
What to do: Patch and release an advisory before anything else.
Likely abandoned
CriticalNo update in 55 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 3.55★ trails the Booking & Events average of 3.77★.
What to do: Close the gap with targeted UX fixes and review recovery.
Review volume is thin
OpportunityOnly 4 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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