Category Description Widget
by Dominik Schwind · Admin & Utilities
Enables a widget with the category description.
41 health vs 57 average across 1,459 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, 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 3172 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
29
now · peak 79
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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
- 2025-11-28 200+ → 100+ down after 132 days in band
- 2025-07-19 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-07-18 200+ → 100+ down after 784 days in band
- 2023-05-26 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in band
- 2023-05-24 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-05-23 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-05-22 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-05-21 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- T Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags B
- T Taxonomy List Widget 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
- N NS Category Widget 1K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags B
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Search & Filter 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B -
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A - C Custom Post Type Widgets 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/category-description-widget" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Category Description Widget — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Category Description Widget: 100+ active installs, 2.3★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/category-description-widget