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Apollo Bar

by codee47 · Uncategorized

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Apollo Bar is a simple announcements plugin that allows you to create colorful notification bars for your website.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins

10+

Active installs

≈19 estimated

5.7K

Total downloads

since 2012

4.11★

Rating (adjusted)

4.8★ raw · 4 reviews

+25%

25

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4921 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

+25% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

25

now · peak 61

2530d 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

Apollo Bar · #38762 you Welcome Bar · #42501 Announcer · #1965 Notification Bar, An · #4026

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.

2.5Kper 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

13.5y ago

latest release · v1.2

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2 · 13.5y ago1.0.1 · 13.7y ago1.0.0 · 13.8y 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,383 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 · 4 reviews

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5★
3 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.2
Last updated
13.5y ago
Added
2012-10-25 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.2
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ dtommy79
    12.9y ago

    Excellent plugin. Does everything similar premium plugins do. 5*

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  2. ★★★★★ familychoiced
    12.9y ago

    I must have tried at least ten other plugins before finding this one, and all of them had issues or were over developed with too many options. This one works perfectly though and does exactly what I need it to – display a notification that can be closed, and allows control over the font and background colours. Many thanks to the developer and please don’t spoil it by adding lots of fancy options I don’t really need.

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  3. ★★★★★ ulganate
    13.1y ago

    Simple but seems to work well across a range of browsers.

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  4. ★★★★★ akky
    13.8y ago

    It works as explained. Not much functions but good enough.

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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. 2024-02-14 20+ → 10+ down after 259 days in tier
  2. 2023-05-31 30+ → 20+ down

Competes with

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