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AD Publisher – Automatically insert post ads

by adsstudio · Uncategorized

Automatically publishing ad code and increasing THE ad UNIT AdSense CTR

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 11,687 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.25, 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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 11/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2635 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-46% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

84

now · peak 188

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

AD Publisher · #16695 Ad Inserter · #190 Advanced Ads · #434 AdRotate Banner Mana · #1196

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.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations

Details

Version
1.1.0
Last updated
7.2y ago
Added
2019-01-30 · 7 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
5.0.25
Requires PHP
5.4

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-02-03 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2024-02-02 100+ → 200+ up after 117 days in tier
  3. 2023-10-08 200+ → 100+ down

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AD Publisher – Automatically insert post ads: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/ad-publisher