Astra Theme Visual Hooks
by Pratik Chaskar · Uncategorized
Also makes 15 other plugins · 12.2K+ installs across the portfolio →
All hook locations in Astra...
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Health
A 86/100
Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈2K estimated
Momentum
-0%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “hook”, “visual” and “theme” to your wp.org tags. You rank #8, #8 and #20 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 1 listed these are the slots worth spending.
86 health vs 58 average across 25,734 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.1%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 47K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,766 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.
This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Listing tuning
Updated 68 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.17★ and held back under 25 reviews
1 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Only 1 tag — use the full 5 relevant tags so search matches more queries.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
41
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
+0.1
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
25%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| theme hooks your tag | #1 | #2 | 0 |
| visual hooks | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| visual hook | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| hooks | #4 | #17 | up 1 |
| astra theme | #5 | #15 | 0 |
| astra | #7 | #17 | 0 |
| visual | #8 | #16 | 0 |
| astra hooks | #3 | #15 | up 1 |
| hook | #8 | #23 | down 1 |
| theme | #20 | #23 | down 1 |
| wordpress hooks | #10 | #24 | 0 |
17 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 11 listed. 6 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Add “hook”, “visual” and “theme” to your wp.org tags. You rank #8, #8 and #20 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 1 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.9K · peaks are release surges
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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
10mo ago
latest release · v1.1.1 · 19 Jan 2026
3
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2 months ago and the previous band took 7 years to cross, so the real count is still just under 2K.
Install history since 1 Aug 2021
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ miandu3.7y ago
Seeing where the hooks are visually saves time in not having to “lookup” where they are from the Astra website. I like the ability to show or not show in the menu.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ estufa88.7y ago
very useful, but you could specify in the description where to activate it! 🙂 Thanks a lot
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ cpfcomputer8.8y ago
This Plugin from Brainstormforce is designed to show you all the possible Astra Theme “Hooks” visually on your Page while you edit it! Before that I always had to take a peek at their Homepage. But with this Visual Hooks Plugin it is so much faster and intuitive to find the right hook 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Jim8.9y ago
This plugin displays all the astra sections that make up a web page. That can be helpful if you need to customize an area. They just updated the app so admins can turn it on or off and are the only ones who see it. I make it a 5 now. A link to documentation on using the sections would be good idea. This topic was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by Jim.
Read on wp.org ↗
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.1
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
0 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description is 30 characters, too short to say what the plugin does.
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 384 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 1 tags appear in the text ("theme hooks" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-08-31 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2565 days in tier
- 2019-08-23 1K+ → 2K+ up after 295 days in tier
- 2018-11-01 900+ → 1K+ up after 31 days in tier
- 2018-10-01 800+ → 900+ up after 30 days in tier
- 2018-09-01 700+ → 800+ up after 45 days in tier
- 2018-07-18 600+ → 700+ up after 47 days in tier
- 2018-06-01 500+ → 600+ up after 31 days in tier
- 2018-05-01 300+ → 500+ up after 30 days in tier
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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