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VainCode Animate Scroll WordPress

by Md. Abdullah Al Mahim · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 2 other plugins · 60+ installs across the portfolio →

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This plugin will add a scroll to top button with different Animation and speed.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 54 average across 3,793 Admin & Utilities plugins

10+

Active installs

≈17 estimated

4.9K

Total downloads

since 2014

3.77★

Rating (adjusted)

3.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+8%

69

Downloads · 30d

category median +22%

High removal-risk signals

75/100

Maintenance 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, well behind 6.8.
  • Reviews souring. Recent reviews read meaningfully worse than older ones, an early sign of decline.

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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4120 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+8% vs prior 30d
5Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

69

now · peak 183

6830d downloads · Aug 26

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

VainCode Animate Scr · #28442 you Recent Posts Widget · #347 Image Widget · #402 Custom Sidebars · #442

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

6.8Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈17

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,384 observations

10Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
11.3y ago
Added
2014-03-31 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.7.41
Requires PHP
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 2 reviews to 2015-06-23
Deteriorating PraiseCompatibility

An early reviewer liked the scroll effects and options, but the latest review says the plugin hasn't kept up with WordPress and now conflicts with a security plugin.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ magdigit
    11.2y ago

    Just a simple ‘scroll to top’ plugin, but… with a broad variety of customizing options in a special setting page! I always love that! This I wrote on june 2015. Today, april 20 2016, this plugin is a disaster. Because it’s not altered for the new WP 4,5 (with new JQuery), it crashes my wonderful protecting plugin ‘Wordfence’. So, it’s sad to say, but: bye bye Md. Abdullah Al Mahim. You better keep on track with WordPress. :-/

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  2. ★★★★★ jasonpaulweber
    12.3y ago

    Nobody’s commented yet, but your plugin works well with WordPress 3.9.1 … and unlike other smooth-scrolling “to top” plugins, I like the 4 little effects you have. Thanks for making this available on the WordPress repository. Good job!

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Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✕ No PHP errors
✕ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-01-09 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-01-08 10+ → 20+ up after 47 days in tier
  3. 2025-11-22 20+ → 10+ down after 1002 days in tier
  4. 2023-02-24 30+ → 20+ down

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