Admin Columns – Icons Add-on
by Jesper van Engelen · Admin & Utilities
Use icons instead of text labels in column headers on post, user, media and other admin pages. Extension for Admin Columns.
45 health vs 56 average across 1,581 Admin & Utilities plugins
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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3617 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
60
now · peak 83
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-11-27 30+ → 20+ down after 306 days in band
- 2025-01-25 20+ → 30+ up after 30 days in band
- 2024-12-26 30+ → 20+ down after 21 days in band
- 2024-12-05 20+ → 30+ up after 7 days in band
- 2024-11-28 30+ → 20+ down after 59 days in band
- 2024-09-30 20+ → 30+ up after 83 days in band
- 2024-07-09 30+ → 20+ down after 395 days in band
- 2023-06-10 40+ → 30+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Admin Columns 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Advanced Custom Fields: Typography Field 4K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D -
Three Column Screen Layout 1K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D -
WPC Admin Columns 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
Loginizer 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Redux Framework 900K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
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