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Collapsible Widget Area

by Curtiss Grymala · Admin & Utilities

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Creates a tabbed or accordion-style widget that can hold other widgets.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 54 average across 3,792 Admin & Utilities plugins

100+

Active installs

≈150 estimated

16.4K

Total downloads

since 2012

4.19★

Rating (adjusted)

4.6★ raw · 8 reviews

+50%

57

Downloads · 30d

category median +23%

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, 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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 61/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3072 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+50% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

57

now · peak 83

5730d downloads · Aug 26

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

Collapsible Widget A · #13717 you Tabby Responsive Tab · #1649 Responsive Tabs · #3362 Collapsing Archives · #4088

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.6Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

570per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

8.4y ago

latest release · v1.0

10

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0 · 8.4y ago0.5.3 · 11.1y ago0.5.2 · 11.1y ago0.5.1 · 11.1y ago0.5 · 11.2y ago0.4 · 13.7y ago0.3.1a · 13.9y ago0.3a · 13.9y ago0.1a · 14.6y ago0.2a · 14.6y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 77% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 77%
v0.5 15%
v0.4 7.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

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

Install history · since 2015-05-01 · 1,389 observations

100Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 8 reviews

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5★
5 4★
3 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
8.4y ago
Added
2012-01-20 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ ke7lvb
    7.8y ago

    Unique feature and very useful. As of Version 1.0 the plugin has an issue with mixed content (it uses http when on an https site) and could reference a minified css for better optimization.

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  2. ★★★★★ billybob884
    8.6y ago

    Any chance this will ever be updated? This is exactly the functionality I’m looking for, but it’s the only plugin that seems like it once offered it…

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  3. ★★★★★ emoemo
    8.9y ago

    Hi Curtiss Grymala, Great plugin! I like your plugin so much that I am installing an older version of WP because 4.8.2. breaks it. Do you plan an update to this plugin sometime nearby, so that it will be compatible with the latest versions of WordPress? Thank you, Emo

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  4. ★★★★★ Nine Dark Moons
    10.6y ago

    It has some limitations, but overall I love it! It makes my site much sleeker and user friendly. I really like the ability to have multiple instances of it to hold different widgets, because it sizes itself based on the height of the widget. So if you stack a bunch of widgets into it, and one is super long, there will be a lot of empty space under the shorter widgets. I hope that makes sense. But having multiple instances of it allows me to store widgets of similar size. Overall, this plugin has made me very happy!

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  5. ★★★★★ Chris F.
    11.6y ago

    It served my needs just great.

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  6. ★★★★★ hardik
    11.9y ago

    Very very useful plugin. Thank u very much brother… Keep it on….

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  7. ★★★★★ sumeshms
    12.3y ago

    Hi Curtiss Grymala, Great plugin! I wanted to use this plugin in one of my own site which has WordPress version 3.8.3. Do we have an update to this plugin sometime nearby? So that it will be compatible with the latest versions of WordPress? Note: I have rated this plugin because of its existence. There aren’t many plugins out there which can do what this plugin does. Thanks! Sumesh M.S

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  8. ★★★★★ basitijaz
    13.7y ago

    Extremely useful.

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Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-02-12 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
  2. 2026-02-09 100+ → 200+ up after 7 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-02 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-02-01 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-30 200+ → 100+ down after 27 days in tier
  6. 2026-01-03 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
  7. 2025-12-31 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2025-12-30 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier

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