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Assign Widgets

by Themezly · Admin & Utilities

A simple and easy way to assign widgets to a specific page or create widget area.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 57 average across 1,421 Admin & Utilities 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 5.6.17.

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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 25/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2062 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-32% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

81

now · peak 235

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

Assign Widgets · #11261 Feature A Page Widge · #3892 Contact Form 7 Widge · #4989 Duplicate Widget · #5537

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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.

modeled estimate
200–300 ≈250

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Details

Version
1.0.4
Last updated
5.6y ago
Added
2018-06-21 · 8 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
5.6.17
Requires PHP
5.6

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-10 300+ → 200+ down after 10 days in band
  2. 2026-06-30 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
  3. 2026-06-28 300+ → 200+ down after 419 days in band
  4. 2025-05-05 400+ → 300+ down after 307 days in band
  5. 2024-07-02 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in band
  6. 2024-07-01 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in band
  7. 2024-06-28 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in band
  8. 2024-06-25 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in band

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