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Already Existing Tags

by digitalemphasis · Uncategorized

Also makes 1 other plugin · 800+ installs across the portfolio →

Looks for already existing tags within your posts.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 79/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.7.17.

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.

45 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 28/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1924 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+23% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

132

now · peak 151

13230d 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

Already Existing Tag · #9002 you Page Tagger · #4983 TagPages · #6294 Auto-tags · #12777

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.6Stars · Aug 26

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.

264per 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

5.3y ago

latest release · v2.4

15

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.4 · 5.3y ago2.3 · 5.4y ago2.2 · 5.7y ago2.1 · 7.4y ago2.0 · 8.4y ago1.9 · 9.5y ago1.8 · 10.3y ago1.7 · 10.3y ago1.6 · 10.7y ago1.5 · 10.8y ago1.4 · 11.2y ago1.3 · 11.5y ago1.2 · 12.0y ago1.1 · 12.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 97% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.4 97%
v2.1 3.3%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈550

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

Install history · since 2015-06-01 · 1,421 observations

500Installs · 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.

Details

Version
2.4
Last updated
5.3y ago
Added
2014-05-16 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
5.7.17
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. alwiggins
    6.6y ago

    This plugin appeared to work for pre-existing posts, but failed to populate any tags for a new post. a disappointing waste of time.

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  2. thewarehousecc
    7.4y ago

    Exactly what I was looking for. Had over 1000 posts without tags and this auto-generated for every post. If you are looking to bulk edit, you can use the bulk editor on the WordPress posts page. Just make sure to limit your posts to 6-8 or you will crash the db.

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  3. Kayacan AKIN
    7.7y ago

    There is no competitive alternative! There is no even similar type of alternative! This is one the of the best plugin you must have it on your WordPress keychain. It saves millions of times for big blogs. It can read the post page pretty deeply and I don’t know how but it can understand like even Google AI. It finds not just the same words but similar ones too (Please correct me if I’m wrong). I suggest this to everyone who is running small or big blog.

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  4. TaNikTa
    7.7y ago

    Many thanks to the author! This is the only plugin of the kind that I have earned with Cyrillic. Simple settings, precise work and a lot of time saved!

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  5. AlfredG
    9.6y ago

    I have this pugin installed for a few month now and I must say, it saved me a lot of time! I think this option should be in the core of WordPress. Thanks for creating this plugin.

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  6. Mike V. Gorbunov
    10.8y ago

    the most efficient time saver I’ve ever seen

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  7. q292u
    11.2y ago

    I’ve installed this on one of my blogs, as I couldn’t be pestered revising the tags every time I posted. Lazy, I know,but hey.. The only issue I have is that it’s TOO efficient – it tags a lot of words that I really DON’T want tagged. Now, I know I could just remove these words from the tags list, but an “exclude tags” list would be better for me..

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.7.2

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. 2026-05-08 600+ → 500+ down after 84 days in tier
  2. 2026-02-13 700+ → 600+ down after 67 days in tier
  3. 2025-12-08 800+ → 700+ down after 132 days in tier
  4. 2025-07-29 900+ → 800+ down after 2 days in tier
  5. 2025-07-27 800+ → 900+ up after 2 days in tier
  6. 2025-07-25 900+ → 800+ down after 4 days in tier
  7. 2025-07-21 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2025-07-20 900+ → 800+ down after 83 days in tier

Competes with

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