A Year Before
by Ralf · Admin & Utilities
"A Year Before" shows a list of articles, which were written a certain time ago. So you can show in a history, what happend in your blog in …
45 health vs 60 average across 1,054 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.24, well behind 6.8.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2616 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
74
now · peak 187
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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-04-06 50+ → 40+ down after 128 days in band
- 2025-11-29 60+ → 50+ down after 135 days in band
- 2025-07-17 70+ → 60+ down after 124 days in band
- 2025-03-15 80+ → 70+ down after 251 days in band
- 2024-07-07 90+ → 80+ down after 3 days in band
- 2024-07-04 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-07-03 90+ → 80+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-07-01 80+ → 90+ up after 1 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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Reading Time WP 30K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C - B Bulk Post Update Date 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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