A Note Above – WP Dashboard Notes
by brownbrowniebrownerson · Admin & Utilities
A WordPress Note taking system to live on your WP Admin dashboard.
49 health vs 58 average across 1,246 Admin & Utilities plugins
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 978 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
64
now · peak 106
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “50+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-06-17 40+ → 50+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-06-15 50+ → 40+ down after 3 days in band
- 2024-06-12 40+ → 50+ up after 17 days in band
- 2024-05-26 50+ → 40+ down after 18 days in band
- 2024-05-08 40+ → 50+ up after 22 days in band
- 2024-04-16 50+ → 40+ down after 64 days in band
- 2024-02-12 40+ → 50+ up after 6 days in band
- 2024-02-06 50+ → 40+ down after 10 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Sticky Notes for WP Dashboard 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A -
KeepInMind Dashboard Notes 300+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A -
WP Dashboard Notes 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
LH Dashboard Notes 500+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D - S Simple Admin Notes 200+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags D
- D Dashboard Notepad 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag D
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