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Bootstrap's Columns Controller

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With "Bootstrap's Columns Controller" you can easily use colums to customize your content

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 60 average across 6,014 Uncategorized 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.28, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 9/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3266 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-40% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

87

now · peak 193

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

Bootstrap's Columns · #12616 WEN Responsive Colum · #7416 Column Shortcodes · #657 Genesis Widget Colum · #3069

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 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
1.3
Last updated
8.9y ago
Added
2017-07-31 · 8 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.8.28
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-11-15 300+ → 200+ down after 691 days in band
  2. 2022-12-25 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in band
  3. 2022-12-23 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
  4. 2022-12-22 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
  5. 2022-12-21 300+ → 400+ up after 10 days in band
  6. 2022-12-11 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in band
  7. 2022-12-09 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in band
  8. 2022-12-07 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band

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Bootstrap's Columns Controller: 200+ active installs, 3.5★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/bootstraps-columns-controller