AP Twitter Follow Button
by Armel · Social
AP Twitter Follow Button add a widget which allows you to add a highly cutomizable Twitter Follow Button.
41 health vs 56 average across 746 Social plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 5148 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
85
now · peak 196
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 “70+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-07-11 80+ → 70+ down after 11 days in band
- 2026-06-30 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-06-29 80+ → 70+ down after 88 days in band
- 2026-04-02 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-04-01 80+ → 90+ up after 9 days in band
- 2026-03-23 90+ → 80+ down after 4 days in band
- 2026-03-19 80+ → 90+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-03-16 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- S Simple Twitter Follow Me Button 20+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
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WP-TwitterBadge 40+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D - T TweetMeme Button 30+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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Nextend Social Login and Register 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
AddQuicktag 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag D
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