Coronavirus Alert Bar
by Ryan Bracey · Uncategorized
Quickly add an alert bar for COVID-19 information to your website
45 health vs 55 average across 13,987 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.7.15.
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 1894 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
23
now · peak 88
Directory rank
wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better
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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-12 50+ → 40+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2026-06-28 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-27 50+ → 40+ down after 152 days in tier
- 2026-01-26 60+ → 50+ down after 121 days in tier
- 2025-09-27 70+ → 60+ down after 10 days in tier
- 2025-09-17 60+ → 70+ up after 59 days in tier
- 2025-07-20 80+ → 60+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2025-07-15 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
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