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Content.ad

by NewClarity · Uncategorized

Display popular content to your users from your own site and/or from our sponsored partners, increasing visitor engagement and revenue.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 70/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 59 average across 7,171 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.18.

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.

46 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 22/100
Rating quality 69/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2082 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

-47% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

32

now · peak 95

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

Content.ad · #15577 Ads.txt Manager · #355 Meks Easy Ads Widget · #1793 Ezoic · #1807

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 · 1,380 observations

Details

Version
1.3.7
Last updated
5.7y ago
Added
2012-07-30 · 13 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0.6
Tested up to
5.5.18
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-07-26 200+ → 100+ down after 335 days in band
  2. 2024-08-25 300+ → 200+ down after 4 days in band
  3. 2024-08-21 200+ → 300+ up after 3 days in band
  4. 2024-08-18 300+ → 200+ down after 22 days in band
  5. 2024-07-27 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
  6. 2024-07-26 300+ → 200+ down after 6 days in band
  7. 2024-07-20 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
  8. 2024-07-19 300+ → 200+ down after 207 days in band

Competes with

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Content.ad: 100+ active installs, 3.8★ (16 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/contentad