Better Admin Reading
by wycks · Admin & Utilities
Restores balance to WordPress 3.8's admin. Improves the admin experience especially if you have a lot of menu items.
41 health vs 53 average across 2,876 Admin & Utilities 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, 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 4586 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
49
now · peak 141
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Radio Buttons for Taxonomies 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags C -
WP Custom Admin Interface 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A - C Category Checklist Tree 5K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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Fancy Admin UI 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D -
Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Loginizer 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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