Awesome Color Palettes
by richardgabriel · Uncategorized
A cool way to display color palettes on your WordPress site.
46 health vs 56 average across 11,417 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5.7.15.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1935 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
26
now · peak 93
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
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-10-16 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-10-14 100+ → 200+ up after 4 days in band
- 2025-10-10 200+ → 100+ down after 564 days in band
- 2024-03-25 300+ → 200+ down after 481 days in band
- 2022-11-30 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in band
- 2022-11-28 300+ → 400+ up after 6 days in band
- 2022-11-22 400+ → 300+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Dominant Color 200+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D -
Customize specific post title with color 40+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C - C Color Widgets 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
- W Wp-Syntax Hacktify 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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