Citation Importer
by Stephanie Leary · Uncategorized
Import a citation or bibliography as posts.
41 health vs 56 average across 11,762 Uncategorized 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30, 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 3619 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
20
now · peak 73
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,366 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-02-03 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-02-01 20+ → 10+ down after 618 days in tier
- 2024-05-24 30+ → 20+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2024-05-18 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-05-17 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-05-16 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-05-14 30+ → 20+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2024-05-08 20+ → 30+ up after 8 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- K KCite 40+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
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Footnotes Made Easy 2K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Academic Blogger's Toolkit 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D -
Scholar Publications Fetcher 200+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B - S Side Matter 100+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
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CM Footnotes – Boost your content’s credibility with footnotes, citations, and bibliography 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
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