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Authors Widget

by flocsy · Login & Users

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Authors Widget shows the list or cloud of the authors in the sidemenu.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 59 average across 1,441 Login & Users plugins

1K+

Active installs

≈1.9K estimated

112.9K

Total downloads

since 2009

4.17★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 4 reviews

+50%

192

Downloads · 30d

category median +16%

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, 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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3195 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+50% vs prior 30d
14Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

192

now · peak 1.7K

19430d 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

Authors Widget · #6210 you Post Co-Authors · #30887 Co-Authors Plus · #1203 Authors List · #3179

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.

194per 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

16.1y ago

latest release · v1.9

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.9 · 16.1y ago1.3 · 16.9y ago1.2 · 16.9y ago1.1 · 17.5y ago1.0 · 17.6y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 97% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.4 97%
Older / other versions 3.4%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install history · since 2015-04-01 · 1,424 observations

1KInstalls · 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★
4 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
2.4.8
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2009-01-22 · 17 yrs old
Requires WP
2.0.2
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ tijsgerritsen
    9.2y ago

    Simple but effective

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  2. ★★★★★ Ronaldus
    10.4y ago

    Does exactly what it says. Very nice.

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  3. ★★★★★ wfeu
    11.4y ago

    Ive used this for years works great!

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  4. ★★★★★ mcgravity
    13.4y ago

    Everything okay, thanks!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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. 2024-08-12 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2024-08-11 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2024-08-09 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2024-08-08 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-08-07 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-08-06 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-08-05 2K+ → 1K+ down

Competes with

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