Back to the Future
by Valerio Souza · Uncategorized
Allow you show Future or Scheduled Post on Single Posts.
45 health vs 55 average across 13,185 Uncategorized plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4180 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
17
now · peak 65
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-06-29 30+ → 20+ down after 761 days in tier
- 2023-05-30 40+ → 30+ down after 30 days in tier
- 2023-04-30 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-04-29 40+ → 30+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2023-04-23 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2023-04-20 40+ → 30+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- S Show Future Posts on Single Post 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
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Editorial Calendar 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A - W WP-Cat2Calendar 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D
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