Context Manager
by Phill Brown · Admin & Utilities
Make your site react to users' context by changing your theme's CSS and JavaScript files, navigation menus, sidebars and the HTML body tag.
47 health vs 54 average across 2,596 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, 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 4629 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
31
now · peak 76
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 · 1,372 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-07-19 30+ → 20+ down after 134 days in band
- 2025-03-07 40+ → 30+ down after 138 days in band
- 2024-10-20 50+ → 40+ down after 17 days in band
- 2024-10-03 40+ → 50+ up after 8 days in band
- 2024-09-25 50+ → 40+ down after 6 days in band
- 2024-09-19 40+ → 50+ up after 9 days in band
- 2024-09-10 50+ → 40+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-09-08 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- C Conditional Menus 60K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag B
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If Menu – Visibility control for Menus 50K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag C -
Widget Context 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
Dynamic Widgets 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Shiptastic for WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A -
ThemeZee Toolkit 6K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag D
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