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Ajax Post Filter

by James Irving-Swift · Search

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Filter posts with ajax

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 60 average across 606 Search plugins

10+

Active installs

≈17 estimated

7.5K

Total downloads

since 2011

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+17%

34

Downloads · 30d

category median +22%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, 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.

32 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 82/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5191 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+17% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

34

now · peak 74

3430d downloads · Aug 26

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

Ajax Post Filter · #30240 you YMC Filter · #3331 Search in Place · #4103 Post Category Filter · #6147

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.

3.4Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

14.2y ago

latest release · v1.6

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.6 · 14.2y ago1.5 · 14.4y ago1.4 · 14.9y ago1.3 · 14.9y ago1.2 · 14.9y ago1.1 · 14.9y ago1.0 · 14.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.6 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈17

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2016-05-06 · 1,386 observations

10Installs · Aug 26

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

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

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.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.6
Last updated
14.2y ago
Added
2011-10-05 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.1
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Sami kamal
    13.8y ago

    This plugin does exactly what it says. You get ajaxified search filters which automatically show results with many options. One option which I think need to be available inside the shortcode which is the option to show empty terms. To enable this I had to change the value of “hide_empty” to “0” in line 189 in /lib/ajax.php. I would like also if we can have select-boxes instead of unordered list links. I tried to change this myself but so far I failed. Thank you so much for sharing such amazing plugin.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-13 20+ → 10+ down after 64 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-10 10+ → 20+ up after 71 days in tier
  3. 2026-01-29 20+ → 10+ down after 487 days in tier
  4. 2024-09-29 30+ → 20+ down after 6 days in tier
  5. 2024-09-23 20+ → 30+ up after 50 days in tier
  6. 2024-08-04 30+ → 20+ down after 67 days in tier
  7. 2024-05-29 20+ → 30+ up after 15 days in tier
  8. 2024-05-14 30+ → 20+ down after 310 days in tier

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