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Any Mobile Theme Switcher

by Dnesscarkey · Uncategorized

Also makes 4 other plugins · 633K+ installs across the portfolio →

This Plugin detects mobile browser and display the theme as the setting done from admin. Usefull for switch to Mobile Theme.

Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned

Health

C 60/100

Stale · Likely abandoned

Active installs

20K+

≈25K estimated

Momentum

+29%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Swap “mobile theme” for “bookmarking”. “mobile theme” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #24. “bookmarking” sits at #12 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.

How scoring works →
60 Health · C
Maintenance 22/100
Rating quality 96/100
Support 70/100

60 health vs 58 average across 25,756 Uncategorized plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

4.4%

of downloads still active

At least 20K of 451.3K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,774 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized 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

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Details

Version
3.2
Last updated
2.2y ago
Added
2012-03-21 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.6.11
Requires PHP
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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.

75 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 31/100

Updated 790 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 88/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.6.11; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 94/100

4.8★ over 244 reviews, smoothed to 4.68★

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 790 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+29% vs prior 30d
221 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 5.7K · peaks are release surges

9091 Nov 2026

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

Any Mobile Theme Swi · #1159youWP-Mobilizer · #17876Frndzk Easy Mobile T · #44585WMF Theme Switcher · #66848

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

601 Nov 2026

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.

451 Nov 2026

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

2.2y ago

latest release · v3.2 · 3 Sep 2024

18

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.2 · 3 Sep 20243.1 · 9 Nov 20233.0 · 5 May 20202.1 · 1 Feb 20172.0 · 29 Jun 20161.9 · 29 Nov 20151.8 · 17 Jun 20151.7 · 10 Mar 20151.6 · 10 Jun 20141.5 · 11 Feb 20141.4 · 23 Oct 20131.3 · 2 Jun 20131.2 · 4 May 20131.1 · 30 Apr 2013

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 19% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.1 60%
v3.2 19%
v1.5 11%
Older / other versions 9.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20K–30K ≈25K

Crossed into this band 6.8 years ago; the previous band took 4.6 years to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 2 Aug 2020

20K1 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ qazqer
    3.0y ago

    Hello, thank you, to make a great plugin and quick fix the plugin for the incompabillity with WP 4.0.1

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ mahdisweb
    3.0y ago

    But it doesn’t seem to work with WordPress version 6.4.1

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ tinkerjet
    3.5y ago

    This is a plugin I’ve absolutely loved for years, however, it doesn’t appear to have much of a developer presence anymore. I reported a non-critical issue (non-critical as in it didn’t affect the functionality of the plugin, but still flooded my server error logs regardless) and a year later, there is not even a reply. I’d include a link to my bug report, but reviews don’t allow links, so if you want proof, just pop into the support forum for this plugin and Ctrl-F my username. So why five stars? Because it still did everything that it said it did for the entire time I used it. Anything less than 5 stars would fail to capture how wonderfully useful this plugin has been to me the entire time I’ve used it. Ultimately, I’m grateful to have had it on my sites, but I can’t use it anymore because I need to be able to navigate my error logs without it being flooded from this single plugin many times per day.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ KJA4U
    5.7y ago

    I tried it on Firefox for mobile, It works fine, on chrome browser doesn’t work unfortunately.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ dharmalog
    7.7y ago

    Simply that. It bugged my main CSS without replacing it with the selected theme. No error messages, no hint as how to solve that.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  6. ★★★★★ aisles
    9.4y ago

    The latest version of this plugin doesn’t work with 4.8 WordPress and 4.7.5 also (maybe even further back). It will still show the website on the desktop version but any smaller/responsive size returns a white screen.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ wpleo
    9.8y ago

    Sounds like an important plugin, but some fix is needed to work with WP 4.7.1. Caused WSOD on my website and I had to deactivated it.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  8. ★★★★★ federicogmpertz
    10.7y ago

    As soon as I installed it my mobile view of the website died and con only see “Not Found”, error 404. Tried disabling the plugin and eliminating it and the problem persisted. Now I have to search how to fix it…

    Read on wp.org ↗

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 3.2 Mobile Theme Error fix for 6.4. Thanks Joe McGill ( https://gist.github.com/joemcgill ) 3.2
  2. — Version 3.1 Tested with 5.8.2 3.1
  3. — Version 3.0 Tested with 5.4.1 3.0
  4. — Version 2.1 Tested with 4.7 2.1
  5. — Version 2.0 Tested with 4.5.3 2.0
  6. — Version 1.9 Tested with 4.3.1 1.9

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

5 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "This Plugin detects mobile browser and display the theme as the setting done from admin. Usefull for switch..."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 3 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 959 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "mobile browser detect", "theme redirection based on mobile device" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2020-01-14 30K+ → 20K+ down after 1690 days in tier
  2. 2015-05-30 20K+ → 30K+ up

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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Any Mobile Theme Switcher: 20K+ active installs, 4.8★ (244 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/any-mobile-theme-switcher

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