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Auto Tag Generator

by fmzac · Uncategorized

Automatically creates tags from post title, on update or publish.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 60 average across 6,312 Uncategorized plugins

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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4657 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

-50% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

59

now · peak 159

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

Auto Tag Generator · #14386 Pages with category · #694 Search & Filter · #783 Tag, Category, and T · #796

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

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈160

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
12.8y ago
Added
2013-10-16 · 12 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.6.1
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-12-02 200+ → 100+ down after 25 days in band
  2. 2025-11-07 300+ → 200+ down after 101 days in band
  3. 2025-07-29 200+ → 300+ up after 660 days in band
  4. 2023-10-08 300+ → 200+ down

Competes with

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Auto Tag Generator: 100+ active installs, 3.6★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/auto-tag-generator