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CG Dynamic Sidebar

by Chandan Garg · Uncategorized

CG Dynamic Sidebar helps you to add/create multiple sidebar areas in your admin widgets screen. Easy Installation and Easy management.

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

45 health vs 58 average across 8,282 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.22, 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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 13/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2685 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

-49% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

66

now · peak 172

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

CG Dynamic Sidebar · #15589 Custom Sidebars · #440 SMK Sidebar Generato · #1721 Widgetize Pages Ligh · #4224

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.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
7.4y ago
Added
2016-06-07 · 10 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.6
Tested up to
5.1.22
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-10-01 200+ → 100+ down after 8 days in band
  2. 2023-09-23 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
  3. 2023-09-22 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in band
  4. 2023-09-19 100+ → 200+ up after 12 days in band
  5. 2023-09-07 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
  6. 2023-09-05 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
  7. 2023-09-04 200+ → 100+ down after 34 days in band
  8. 2023-08-01 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band

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CG Dynamic Sidebar: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/cg-dynamic-sidebar