Admin User Message
by Jonathan Bardo · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 4 other plugins · 500+ installs across the portfolio →
Add message to users of your site. Choose wheter they can dismiss it or not.
45 health vs 54 average across 3,793 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, 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 3934 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
60
now · peak 3.1K
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
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
10.8y ago
latest release · v0.0.9
9
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2015-08-24 · 1,389 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. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 3 reviews to 2016-08-12Reviewers say it does exactly what they need, with one asking for support for more than a single message.
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Marcelo Pedra10.1y ago
I love to use it when a website is migrated over to a new host and the DNS propagation may take a lot to be updated. Editors need to know they should stop publishing for a while 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ sublines10.6y ago
Hey, this is really useful for me! Just one request: Wouldn’t it make sense, if you could create several messages? I was quite surprised to see that you can only create one. The reason is that I would like to inform my authors about several different things and allow some of the messages to be dismissed and others not. Do you think you could work on this feature? Thanks!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ samwilson10.7y ago
This does just what I want. Thanks for making it. 🙂 It’s definitely better than https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-screen-messages You might want to also tag it as: https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin-message
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 34 languages, 2 at 90% or more · development strings
Plus 10 more locales with partial translations.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-20 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-19 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-18 200+ → 100+ down after 1117 days in tier
- 2023-05-28 300+ → 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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Loginizer 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Redux Framework 900K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A -
Admin Menu Editor 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
White Label CMS 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Advanced Custom Fields: Extended 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag B -
Nested Pages 90K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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