Admin Menus Fixed
by spherical · Uncategorized
Ozh' Admin Drop Down Menu + WordPress Toolbar & Admin Menu Fixed to the Top and Side of the Admin Screens. Less Scrolling!
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Health
B 79/100
Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈150 estimated
Momentum
+8%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “administration” for “art direction”. “administration” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “art direction” sits at #8 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
79 health vs 58 average across 25,737 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.5%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 20.3K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,770 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 3 reviews to 2016-04-30Reviewers like what it does alongside its companion drop-down menu plugin, though one hit a version conflict where the fixed menu obscures the top of the page, and another wants more customization.
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 182 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11, the current branch or newer
4.3★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
43
Momentum
Holding steady
0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
30%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ozh | #2 | #7 | 0 |
| administration menus | #1 | #11 | — |
| ozh admin dropdown menu | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| fixed your tag | #5 | #23 | 0 |
| admin menus | #10 | #23 | down 1 |
| art direction | #8 | #14 | up 1 |
| menus your tag | #21 | #24 | 0 |
| dropdown menus | #15 | #23 | 0 |
| fixed bar | #24 | #24 | 0 |
| rescue | #24 | #22 | 0 |
| custom menus | #24 | #24 | — |
| administration your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| dropdown your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| multisite your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
24 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 11 listed. 13 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “administration” for “art direction”. “administration” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “art direction” sits at #8 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 225 · 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 21 Oct 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
6mo ago
latest release · v1.5 · 2 May 2026
11
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 28% 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 2.9 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 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Kial_Mi_4613010.5y ago
à l’ignoble menu fourre-tout « made in WordPress ». Qui est, excusez du peu, un modèle de contre-ergonomie ! Allié à “Ozh’ Admin Drop Menu” et “AG-Custom Admin”, on atteint un bon niveau d’ergonomie, dommage quand-même qu’on ne puisse pas personnaliser Admin Drop Menu davantage !
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ tipkilby11.4y ago
The companion plugin “Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu” works beautifully and I love it. But I really would like to use the companion plugin “Admin Menus Fixed” to keep the menu from scrolling off the top. Unfortunately this current version doesn’t work with my version of WordPress 4.2.2. Two problems: 1) When Admin Menus Fixed is applied, the very top portion of the page slips under the menu and is obscured (particularly bad if the top menu is two lines or more. 2) When trying to click on a sub-menu item on the first line, the menu item on the second line actually interferes. This is not an issue when “Admin Menus Fixed” is not active, but becomes an issue when it is. So my workaround is to do without “Admin Menus Fixed” but now the top menu scrolls off the page unfortunately. ALMOST a perfect solution. I hope Ozh’ can fix this! Thanks!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ RJKJR13.7y ago
If you always want your admin menus one click away this is the plugin for you. No more scrolling around to find the links and menus you need. Works great with “Ozh’ Admin Drop Down Menu” plugin. The plugin is actively maintained. If you do run into a plug-in, browser or theme conflict the developer is quick to respond and find and fix the problem.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1
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.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
1 of 8 pass · checked 25 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you want"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,449 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("administration", "dropdown", "multisite" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2023-12-06 200+ → 100+ down after 13 days in tier
- 2023-11-23 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-11-22 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2023-11-17 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-11-16 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-11-15 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-11-13 200+ → 100+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2023-10-30 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
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).
- D Dropdown Multisite Selector 900+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
- M Multisite Shared Menu 50+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
- P Page Template Filter 40+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
- T Twenty Ten IE6 Menus 20+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
- P Post Format Filter 20+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
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Code Snippets 1M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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