Advent Calendar
by Paul Vincent Beigang · Booking & Events
A simple calendar plugin to show a list of 24 days before christmas. Each day can be viewed automatically on the current date after it got published.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈150 estimated
Momentum
+2%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “advent calendar” and “calender” to your wp.org tags. You rank #10 and #18 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
45 health vs 69 average across 1,838 Booking & Events plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.7%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 15.3K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Booking & Events plugin keeps 0.8%, across 940 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Booking & Events plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.16.
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 1432 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.1.16; the current branch is 6.8
4.2★ over 5 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 1432 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.
28
Momentum
Losing ground
-1.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 23d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 23d
-1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| advent your tag | #10 | #6 | down 2 |
| advent calendar | #10 | #4 | down 3 |
| calender | #18 | #13 | 0 |
| calendar your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| christmas your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| flexible your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
5 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 2 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
- Add “advent calendar” and “calender” to your wp.org tags. You rank #10 and #18 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 403 · 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.
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
3.9y ago
latest release · v1.0.5 · 29 Nov 2022
5
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 2.4 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 11 Nov 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ wph410.8y ago
Thanks a lot!!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ sibilbruno11.3y ago
This works great, thank you very much!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ manakuke12.0y ago
You can change the style through custom CSS in the theme and the text added can be shown via customizing single-advent-calendar-entry-custom.php and also placing in your theme. I got stuck initially, but worked through the instructions and other forum responses and was able to get it to work great.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Hypnosis Praxis12.0y ago
The plugin does not work at all. It generates 24 entries – that’s it. You can not add any text to the calendar entries (if you modify your functions.php you can add text, but it won’t be shwon), you can not change the style of the calendar.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Chris12.9y ago
I use it to unlock an exclusive picture on my site every day till christmas eve. tested it already on my dev site. works fine!
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.1.1
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
4 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "A simple calendar plugin to show a list of 24 days before christmas. Each day can be viewed automatically o..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 3 questions in the FAQ.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 3 of 3 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Defaults").
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("use it", "perfect for").
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 957 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 4 tags appear in the text; "flexible" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-06-04 200+ → 100+ down after 207 days in tier
- 2023-11-10 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-11-09 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-11-08 100+ → 200+ up after 201 days in tier
- 2023-04-21 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-04-20 100+ → 200+ up after 33 days in tier
- 2023-03-18 200+ → 100+ down after 115 days in tier
- 2022-11-23 100+ → 200+ up after 1074 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).
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SimplyBook.me – Booking and reservations calendar 30K+ installs · 3.7★ · 1 shared tag B -
WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce 20K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
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