Compact View Mode
by Frankie Jarrett · Admin & Utilities
View your post list in a more precise and compact way.
47 health vs 53 average across 2,964 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, 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 3493 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
28
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,372 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-01-23 20+ → 30+ up after 28 days in tier
- 2024-12-26 30+ → 20+ down after 21 days in tier
- 2024-12-05 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-12-04 30+ → 20+ down after 655 days in tier
- 2023-02-18 40+ → 30+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2023-02-12 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-02-10 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-02-09 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- W WP Admin UI Customize 30K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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LH Archived Post Status 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags C - H HiFi (Head Injection, Foot Injection) 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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Sortable Word Count Reloaded 2K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Post Lists View Custom 2K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D - P Posts Character Count Admin 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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