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.
45 health vs 66 average across 656 Booking & Events plugins
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 6.1.10.
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 1326 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
144
now · peak 403
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
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
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Super Advent Calendar 300+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags A -
Christmas Calendar by CMobile 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
The Events Calendar 700K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A -
Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more! 70K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag B -
Timetable and Event Schedule by MotoPress 30K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
SimplyBook.me – Booking and reservations calendar 30K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
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