Around this date in the past… – Widget Edition
by Joan Junyent Tarrida · Uncategorized
It shows entries/posts around today's date in the past (if they exist). It is highly customizable.
41 health vs 56 average across 11,977 Uncategorized 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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8, 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 5770 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
22
now · peak 131
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-18 30+ → 20+ down after 27 days in tier
- 2026-05-22 20+ → 30+ up after 28 days in tier
- 2026-04-24 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2026-04-20 20+ → 30+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2026-04-08 30+ → 20+ down after 221 days in tier
- 2025-08-30 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-08-29 30+ → 40+ up after 18 days in tier
- 2025-08-11 40+ → 30+ down after 11 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- D Disable Author Archives 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B
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Simple Yearly Archive 6K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A - A Advanced Posts/Page 3K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D
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Collapsing Archives 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B -
Sitekit 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag C - E Expanding Archives 3K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag D
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