Category Checklist Expander
by Mark Jaquith · Admin & Utilities
Increases the height of the category checklist meta box on the post editing screen so that all categories are shown.
45 health vs 56 average across 1,627 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 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4951 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
36
now · peak 81
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-11-23 200+ → 100+ down after 397 days in band
- 2024-10-22 100+ → 200+ up after 37 days in band
- 2024-09-15 200+ → 100+ down after 242 days in band
- 2024-01-17 300+ → 200+ down after 30 days in band
- 2023-12-18 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
- 2023-12-16 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-12-15 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-12-14 300+ → 200+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- C Category Checklist Tree 5K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags D
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Radio Buttons for Taxonomies 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags C -
Taxonomy Tags to Checkboxes 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Post Category Filter (WP Admin) 1K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Loginizer 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Redux Framework 900K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
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