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Better Stop Adblock

by CodeClan · Login & Users

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This plugin detects if a visitor to your website has AdBlock software enabled. In this case, a notification will appear.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 70/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 59 average across 1,444 Login & Users plugins

10+

Active installs

≈16 estimated

23.0K

Total downloads

since 2013

3.82★

Rating (adjusted)

3.8★ raw · 22 reviews

+47%

28

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

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 3.9.40, 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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4451 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 · 1,428 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+47% vs prior 30d
-4Downloads · Sep 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

28

now · peak 66

3130d downloads · Sep 26

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

Better Stop Adblock · #27839 you CHP Ads Block Detect · #7359 Lite Maintenance Mod · #11025 AdUnblocker · #12122

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.8Stars · Sep 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

3.1Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

12.2y ago

latest release · v2.1

15

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.1 · 12.2y ago2.0 · 12.3y ago1.9.2 · 12.3y ago1.9.1 · 12.4y ago1.9 · 12.4y ago1.8 · 12.4y ago1.5 · 12.4y ago1.7.1 · 12.8y ago1.7 · 12.8y ago1.6 · 12.9y ago1.4 · 13.0y ago1.3 · 13.0y ago1.2 · 13.1y ago1.1 · 13.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈16

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

Install history · since 2015-10-17 · 1,385 observations

10Installs · Sep 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 22 reviews

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5★
13 4★
2 3★
1 2★
1 1★
5

Details

Version
2.1
Last updated
12.2y ago
Added
2013-07-13 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.9.40
Requires PHP
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Reviewer account pattern

from wp.org reviewer profiles

13 of the last 14 four- and five-star reviews came from accounts created within a month of posting the review.

Registering a wp.org account just to leave a review is common and often entirely legitimate. The share here is unusually high for the sample, so it's worth keeping in mind while reading the reviews.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ resepan
    10.5y ago

    not working

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  2. ★★★★★ AberrationClub
    10.8y ago

    Un apaño… poco más. Al menos funciona. Works… but it’s more simple than a banana.

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  3. ★★★★★ gokku98
    11.0y ago

    Aparte de lo mal que se ve, ni siquiera funciona.

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  4. ★★★★★ mariopetrauskas
    12.2y ago

    Hi from Germany, absolutley great plugin! Works 100%. For the people that don’t understand Italien, like me, just copy paste the directions in the settings into google translator, and “Disco” You know what going on. I only had to choose the colours, and put in my text, thats it. And you can crap the italien language easily by intuition. Hi, Super Plugin! Macht zu 100% genau was es soll. Wenn Ihr kein Italienisch versteht, wie ich auch, dann kopiert einfach die Texte in den Einstellungen in den google Übersetzer! (Ja da war doch was;) Ich brauchte nur zwei Farben angeben, und meinen Text ändern, das wars. Und das Italienisch versteht man auch intuitiv.

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  5. ★★★★★ ssukcah
    12.3y ago

    U could add own HTML on block screen and Lang manually choice 🙂 Cool option could be adding music from yt without video, only sound. In this version block screen is not at full page (in left side are some pixels(maybe 5)) sometimes work scroll-block.

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  6. ★★★★★ dark-soul
    12.4y ago

    excellent and works well, lots of options and easy to set up ……. good job

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  7. ★★★★★ salvatore1986
    12.5y ago

    I may write many words,but it’s enough just to say: it works!!!!!!

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  8. ★★★★★ Pierre MUZAS
    12.5y ago

    Le message bloque le site ! Un gentil message permettrait d’inviter l’internaute à désactiver la publication d’une manière douce. Peut mieux faire ! 1 star suffit en l’état. Je désinstalle.

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Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-17 20+ → 10+ down after 4 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-13 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-12 20+ → 10+ down after 20 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-23 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-21 20+ → 10+ down after 9 days in tier
  6. 2026-03-12 10+ → 20+ up after 224 days in tier
  7. 2025-07-31 20+ → 10+ down after 475 days in tier
  8. 2024-04-12 30+ → 20+ down after 145 days in tier

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