ACF Beautiful Flexible
by Maxime Culea · Uncategorized
ACF Beautiful Flexible: Transform ACF's flexible layouts list into a beautiful popup.
45 health vs 55 average across 15,566 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.13.
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 1414 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
57
now · peak 107
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 200+ in roughly 444 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-08 200+ → 100+ down after 11 days in tier
- 2026-05-28 100+ → 200+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-05-24 200+ → 100+ down after 13 days in tier
- 2026-05-11 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-05-09 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2026-05-04 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-03 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-02 100+ → 200+ up after 7 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®) 2M+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO 100K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A
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