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Category Checklist Expander

by Mark Jaquith · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 19 other plugins · 164.9K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Increases the height of the category checklist meta box on the post editing screen so that all categories are shown.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 54 average across 3,792 Admin & Utilities plugins

100+

Active installs

≈180 estimated

7.3K

Total downloads

since 2009

4.05★

Rating (adjusted)

4.7★ raw · 3 reviews

+63%

67

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.

33 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4996 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+63% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

67

now · peak 81

6730d downloads · Aug 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

Category Checklist E · #13614 you Category Checklist T · #3129 Radio Buttons for Ta · #1187 Taxonomy Tags to Che · #5991

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.7Stars · Aug 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.

670per 1k installs · Aug 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

13.7y ago

latest release · v1.0.1

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.1 · 13.7y ago1.0 · 16.9y 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈180

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

Install history · since 2016-04-07 · 1,385 observations

100Installs · Aug 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 · 3 reviews

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5★
2 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.1
Last updated
13.7y ago
Added
2009-10-26 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
2.7
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ marco.marsala
    9.2y ago

    Perfect plugin but it won’t work with WooCommerce product categories.

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  2. ★★★★★ Ramoonus
    11.3y ago

    not sure why this isnt a core feature yet

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  3. ★★★★★ spabav
    13.6y ago

    I was desperate with this issue. Thanks for solving and finally let me see all categories in admin.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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. 2025-11-23 200+ → 100+ down after 397 days in tier
  2. 2024-10-22 100+ → 200+ up after 37 days in tier
  3. 2024-09-15 200+ → 100+ down after 242 days in tier
  4. 2024-01-17 300+ → 200+ down after 30 days in tier
  5. 2023-12-18 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
  6. 2023-12-16 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2023-12-15 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2023-12-14 300+ → 200+ down

Competes with

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