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Children Pages

by swedish boy · Uncategorized

Displays children pages of the current top-parent page in a sidebar widget.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 72/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 64 average across 4,287 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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5539 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

-51% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

54

now · peak 159

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

Children Pages · #14398 Auto Submenu · #4439 WP-PageNavi · #131 Nested Pages · #477

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 · 1,382 observations

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
15.2y ago
Added
2011-05-17 · 15 yrs on WP
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
3.1.4
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-06-06 200+ → 100+ down after 628 days in band
  2. 2023-09-17 100+ → 200+ up after 6 days in band
  3. 2023-09-11 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
  4. 2023-09-10 100+ → 200+ up after 5 days in band
  5. 2023-09-05 200+ → 100+ down after 126 days in band
  6. 2023-05-02 100+ → 200+ up after 57 days in band
  7. 2023-03-06 200+ → 100+ down after 19 days in band
  8. 2023-02-15 100+ → 200+ up after 40 days in band

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Children Pages: 100+ active installs, 4.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/children-pages