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Admin in English

by Nikolay Bachiyski · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 6 other plugins · 1.3K+ installs across the portfolio →

Admin in English lets you have your administration panel in English, even if the rest of your blog is translated into another language.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 90/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1, 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.

44 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 87/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3196 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+56% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

154

now · peak 171

15530d downloads · Aug 26

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

Admin in English · #6670 you Performant Translati · #897 Preferred Languages · #4351 Loco Translate · #36

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · Aug 26

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.

155per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

13.0y ago

latest release · v1.2.1

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.1 · 13.0y ago1.2 · 14.3y ago1.1 · 14.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install history · since 2015-04-02 · 1,432 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

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

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

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. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.2.1
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2009-05-14 · 17 yrs old
Requires WP
3.2
Tested up to
3.6.1
Requires PHP

Recent review vibe

read from the latest 12 reviews to 2016-01-29
Mixed PraiseCompatibilitySupport gone quietPerformance

Most reviewers say it does exactly what it promises and does it fast, though a few hit edges where it forces English onto front-end registration pages and WooCommerce order emails, and one who asked for help on the forum got no reply.

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. vietnamsales
    10.6y ago

    I was messing aro8und with .po .mo files and such, for a website in Vietnamese but back-end in English. This plugin saved my day in 20s!

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  2. skyhrg
    11.2y ago

    Everything works as planned except for one thing: When you click on “register for site” for your site and you are taken to the form where you fill in your details, this page is viewed by the client and needs to be in non-English. But when “Admin in English” is activated, this page is in English. I have to deactivate it so that the website visitors can view it in their native language.

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  3. awakeat5
    11.3y ago

    Does not seem to work with all aspects of multilingual sites, but no response to request for information on support forum.

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  4. Marc Wiest
    11.5y ago

    Works perfect!

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  5. Startwebsiting
    11.8y ago

    Great plugin, it works like a charm! Thank you!

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  6. Yiannis Christodoulou
    11.8y ago

    Very nice idea. It what was I needed! Thank you 🙂

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  7. sahand11_m27
    11.9y ago

    Great, simple and fully functional

    Read on wp.org ↗
  8. ramsaiegh
    11.9y ago

    My site is in Hebrew while I prefer to manage it in English. The plugin works well!

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-08-09 2K+ → 1K+ down after 38 days in tier
  2. 2023-07-02 3K+ → 2K+ down after 7 days in tier
  3. 2023-06-25 4K+ → 3K+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2023-06-23 5K+ → 4K+ down after 56 days in tier
  5. 2023-04-28 4K+ → 5K+ up after 3 days in tier
  6. 2023-04-25 3K+ → 4K+ up after 8 days in tier
  7. 2023-04-17 2K+ → 3K+ up

Competes with

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