Ad Box
by Medust Technology Pvt. Ltd. · Admin & Utilities
The Simplest way to place an intelligent advertising banner to your site with lots of customization option.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈15 estimated
Momentum
-43%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “ad plugin”, “ad widget” and “advertising” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
45 health vs 56 average across 5,902 Admin & Utilities plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.2%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 5.1K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,193 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 5.2.30, well behind 6.8.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 1 reviews to 2016-09-08The one review here is happy, explaining that the ad box floats and sticks as you scroll and that short pages just need a bit of scrolling before it kicks in.
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2711 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.2.30; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2711 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| ad plugin your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| ad widget your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| advertising your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| advertising widget your tag | Not checked yet | ||
| customize ad your tag | Not checked yet | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “ad plugin”, “ad widget” and “advertising” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 188 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,400 to #44,800, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
7.4y ago
latest release · v1.1 · 1 Jun 2019
2
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 1 Sep 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ mistertoad10.2y ago
The developer says “it will fix the ad to the top of the site while scroll down to the bottom of the site after its position at the sidebar” which means that it is a free floating ad which stays in position as you scroll up and down. If you only have a short page or you have made a small browser window then you just need to scroll up and down a bit to get it to “kick in”. However, this is a detail which affects all free floating boxes. You will need to find a balance between the size of the image you use and the text. I have not yet worked out how to format the description text. Again, just a detail. I think it’s a useful and stable widget and I am puzzled that no one seems to be using it! Your ad will have a footnote “Powered by Ad Box from Medust” which seems reasonable enough.
Read on wp.org ↗
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Facebook, Twitter.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,016 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("ad plugin", "ad widget", "customize ad" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2022-10-19 20+ → 10+ down after 15 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 30+ → 20+ down after 274 days in tier
- 2022-01-03 60+ → 30+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Ads.txt Manager 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
Advanced Popups 60K+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag B -
AI Powered Marketing 50K+ installs · 3.0★ · 1 shared tag B -
Website Monetization by MageNet 20K+ installs · 3.5★ · 1 shared tag C -
Quick Adsense 20K+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Website Article Monetization By MageNet 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag
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