Adjust Admin Categories
by Masahiro NAKASHIMA · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 8 other plugins · 54.2K+ installs across the portfolio →
Installing this plugin allows you to adjust the behavior of the area below the posts screen category and custom taxonomy box.
47 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.0.
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 1524 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
597
now · peak 1.0K
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
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.
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
4.2y ago
latest release · v2.2.6
24
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 97% 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 “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2015-06-13 · 1,440 observations
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
Est. acquisition value
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.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 4 reviews to 2021-03-30Reviewers are happy, thanking the developer for solving WordPress's default category checkbox behaviour, with a couple asking for extras like collapsible hierarchies and category exclusions.
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ luckyfella735.4y ago
Thanks for this nice feature! Would be even better if we could exclude categories from being affected to prevent the default category (coming with WordPress) from unnecessarily being displayed. Not meant as criticism – just an idea maybe for future versions 😉
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ simongendrin7.1y ago
WHat the **ck the checkbox by default in hierachy taxonomy is buggy!! Even the last wordpress 5.2.2 is still buggy ! Thanks for this plugins to help me resolve it and add features as set a radio to a taxonomy. This topic was modified 7 years ago by simongendrin.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ nuriarai7.3y ago
It will be the best if also made the category hierarchy collapsible.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ shimura11.9y ago
Thanks for developing this.
Read on wp.org ↗
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
- — Version 2.2.0 2.2.0
- — Version 2.1.0 2.1.0
- — Version 2.0.0 2.0.0
- — Version 1.2.0 1.2.0
- — Version 1.1.9 1.1.8 – 3 December 2015 Merged “quick edit problem” Thanks! katanyan. 1.1.7 – 3 December 2015 Merged “If parent category has no children, not make it unselectable.” Thanks! saillmone. 1.1.1 – November 8, 2014 For custom 1.1.9
- — Version 1.0.1 1.0.1
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 6.0
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
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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