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Plugin audit

Countdown Timer

Countdown Timer has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

10K+

Rating

3.6★

wp.org · 59 reviews

Downloads / 30d

2K

Momentum

+14%

30d vs the 30d before

Against 5902 tracked Admin & Utilities plugins: health 70 vs 56 average · rating, weighted for review count, 3.6★ vs 3.8★.

What we found

1 critical 2 to fix 1 market context
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Open security vulnerability

Critical

A known unpatched vulnerability is recorded against this plugin.

What to do: Patch and release an advisory before anything else.

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Update cadence is slipping

Needs work

Last updated 7 months ago. Freshness is one of the strongest directory-ranking signals.

What to do: Get back on a visible release cadence, even minor releases.

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Rating below category benchmark

Needs work

Your rating, weighted for review count, is 3.6★ and trails the Admin & Utilities average of 3.8★.

What to do: Close the gap with targeted UX fixes and review recovery.

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Light support activity. Few recent support threads, so there is no backlog to report.

Downloads, last 2 years

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

566 Oct 2026

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