Admin Menus Accessibility – Quickly Search Admin Menus
by singhleo · Search
Admin Menus Accessibility is a WordPress plugin which adds extra accessibility feature into admin menu.
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Health
D 47/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈150 estimated
Momentum
+27%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: One page off on “wpadmin”. #12 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
47 health vs 63 average across 980 Search plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.1%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 4.9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Search plugin keeps 0.7%, across 647 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Search 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35, well behind 7.1.
Details
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 3115 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.9.35; the current branch is 7.1
4.8★ over 6 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.2★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3115 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| wpadmin your tag | #12 | #5 | 0 |
| backend your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| filter your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| menu your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| search your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- One page off on “wpadmin”. #12 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- “backend”, “filter” and “menu” 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 97 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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
8.5y ago
latest release · v1.0.4 · 23 Apr 2018
3
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 “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3.6 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 22 Oct 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ UN_Rick5.3y ago
Thank you for this plugin, and please continue to support it into the future. A Great Idea, and well implemented.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Bluebunny7.7y ago
A must-have plugin to handle your Admin menu!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Bubba8.7y ago
A shame that the author has abandoned this very useful plugin, and only one of it’s kind. It’s almost exactly whay I was looking for, with the exception of it not also searching for items within the page settings themselves. For example, in Visual Studio or Directory Opus, UltraEdit options windows, there’s a search field, and as you search live searches ALL settings, and then hides irrelevant items, AND highlights the exact search term on any matching items, including things such as check boxes, text fields, options, etc. This plugin essentially does all of that already, minus the items within the settings tabs, or the highlighting of matching terms. I can live w/out the highlighting, but the searching within the settings options themselves is pretty crucial. If that was added, I would absolutely, unequivocally consider this a must have plugin for all WP installations, and think it would deserve being added to Core.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ aasimon9.8y ago
This plugin must became core function of WP.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ bgtbbox10.0y ago
Très bon plugin. Installation rapide et facile. Merci
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Gahapati10.1y ago
Admin Menu Quick Search is what this plugin might just as well have been called: for that’s what it is and does – does amazingly well, in fact. I nearly missed Admin Menus Accessibility due to its title, for that’s not what I was after. So glad I didn’t. I have been struggling with the WordPress Admin Menu(s) for as long as I remember (using WP). There have always been way too many entries in mine, and WP as yet has not come up with a decent way to handle those, like e.g. a multi-column fly-out. Luckily, at least for part of the Tool Bar this is (still) available via My Sites Menu Fixer. With Admin Menus Accessibility installed, I can now kind of forget about my crammed Admin Menu. I can now simply type in the first few characters of what I’m looking for, and … magic happens! You really have to see this for yourself. — You might be amazed, too! This topic was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by Gahapati. Reason: Edited for clarification
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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Admin Menus Accessibility is a WordPress plugin which adds extra accessibility feature into admin menu."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 3 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 3 of 3 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 Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 434 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "backend", "wpadmin" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2023-03-13 200+ → 100+ down after 258 days in tier
- 2022-06-28 300+ → 200+ 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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MB FacetWP Integration 700+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags - B Better User Search 600+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
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