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Plugin audit

Side Menu Lite

Side Menu Lite is healthy and under-discovered, a promotion opportunity.

Active installs

7K+

Rating

4.0★

12 reviews

Downloads / 30d

1.3K

Momentum

+19%

30d vs the 30d before

Against 5902 tracked Admin & Utilities plugins: health 84 vs 56 average · rating 3.95★ vs 3.80★.

What we found

3 opportunity 1 strengths
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Review volume is thin

Opportunity

Only 12 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.

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Healthy but under-discovered

Opportunity

This plugin scores 84/100 on health yet sits at 7,000 installs. The product is good; distribution is the gap.

What to do: A WP Mayor review and placement can put it in front of the right audience.

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Readme fails 1 of 8 AI readiness checks

Opportunity

AI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: names what it works with. Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.

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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✓

Actively maintained. Updated within the last quarter, a strong trust and ranking signal.

Downloads, last 2 years

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

Full report for Side Menu Lite →
232 Nov 2026

WP Mayor

Plugin promotion & growth

Side Menu Lite is a strong product that not enough people know about.

WP Mayor reaches hundreds of thousands of WordPress users a month. A review and placement can turn a healthy plugin into a growing one.

  • A WP Mayor review. An independent, in-depth review in front of a high-intent audience.
  • Newsletter coverage. A feature in the WP Mayor newsletter, straight to subscribers.
  • A new-features video. A short video walking through what is new and why it matters.
  • A sponsored placement. Targeted visibility across WP Mayor for a defined campaign.
  • Growth consulting. Work with our team directly on positioning, distribution and conversion.
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