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BNS Add Widget

by Edward Caissie · Admin & Utilities

Add a widget area to the footer of any theme.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 53 average across 2,976 Admin & Utilities 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 6/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3799 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 · 1,382 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-49% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

37

now · peak 112

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

BNS Add Widget · #12132 SpiceBox · #1261 Loginizer · #43 Widgets for Google R · #69

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

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈290

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
10.4y ago
Added
2010-02-11 · 16 yrs on WP
Requires WP
2.7
Tested up to
4.5.33
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-11-04 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2024-11-03 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in tier
  3. 2024-10-30 300+ → 200+ down after 461 days in tier
  4. 2023-07-27 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2023-07-26 300+ → 400+ up after 4 days in tier
  6. 2023-07-22 400+ → 300+ down after 3 days in tier
  7. 2023-07-19 300+ → 400+ up after 5 days in tier
  8. 2023-07-14 400+ → 300+ down

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BNS Add Widget: 200+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/bns-add-widget