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Auto Prune Posts

by ramon fincken · Uncategorized

Auto deletes expires (prunes) posts after a certain amount of time. On a per category basis (single category, or all at once.

How scoring works →
76 Health · B
Maintenance 79
Rating quality 76
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-10%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

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 “1K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install trend · reconstructed from 1380 daily snapshots

Details

Version
3.1.1
Last updated
8mo ago
Added
2010-10-31
Requires WP
2.3
Tested up to
6.8.5
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-04-09 2K+ → 1K+ down after 541 days in band
  2. 2022-10-16 1K+ → 2K+ up

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Auto Prune Posts: 1K+ active installs, 4.2★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/auto-prune-posts