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Cryout Serious Theme Settings

by CryoutCreations · Admin & Utilities

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This plugin is designed to inter-operate with our Mantra, Parabola, Tempera, Nirvana themes to enable their settings pages.

How scoring works →
78 Health · B
Maintenance 84/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

78 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

40K+

Active installs

≈49K estimated

871.1K

Total downloads

since 2015

4.10★

Rating (adjusted)

4.3★ raw · 16 reviews

+5%

2.2K

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

Directory ranking optimization

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84 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Listing tuning

Update recency 94/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 71/100
Listing tuning 68/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+5% vs prior 30d
70Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

2.2K

now · peak 24.3K

2.2K30d 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

Cryout Serious Theme · #897 you All In One Favicon · #656 WP Updates Notifier · #1044 ShowID for Post/Page · #2512

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.3Stars · 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.

54per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

7mo ago

latest release · v0.5.17

19

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.5.17 · 7mo ago0.5.16 · 1.8y ago0.5.15 · 2.3y ago0.5.14 · 3.3y ago0.5.13 · 5.0y ago0.5.12 · 5.5y ago0.5.11 · 6.0y ago0.5.10 · 7.3y ago0.5.9 · 8.6y ago0.5.8.1 · 9.0y ago0.5.8 · 9.2y ago0.5.7 · 9.2y ago0.5.6 · 10.0y ago0.5.4 · 10.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.5 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
40K–50K ≈49K

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

Install history · since 2015-12-01 · 1,472 observations

40KInstalls · 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.

Ratings · 16 reviews

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5★
13 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
3

Details

Version
0.5.17
Last updated
7mo ago
Added
2015-11-18 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.5
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP
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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 0.5.17 Fixed deprecation notice about fetching multiple feeds with single SimplePie instance (in theme news) Fixed missing plugin name in readme.txt header Bumped supported WordPress version to 6.9 0.5.17
  2. — Version 0.5.16 Reorganized plugin folders and files Tested for compatibility with PHP 8.3 Bumped supported WordPress version to 6.6 0.5.16
  3. — Version 0.5.15 Fixed ‘jQuery.fn.click()’ deprecation warning on themes’ settings pages Reorganized setting page styling and scripting Tested for compatibility with PHP 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 Tested supported WordPress version to 6.5 0.5.15
  4. — Version 0.5.14 Updated for compatibility with the changes in Tempera 1.8.0 Bumped supported WordPress version to 5.9 0.5.14
  5. — Version 0.5.13 Updated for compatibility with the changes in Nirvana 1.6.0 Bumped supported WordPress version to 5.8 0.5.13
  6. — Version 0.5.12 Updated for compatibility with the changes in Parabola 2.4.0 Improved version detection for better compatibility with customized themes Bumped supported WordPress version to 5.7 0.5.12

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.6.2

✓ 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. 2024-01-12 50K+ → 40K+ down after 379 days in tier
  2. 2022-12-29 60K+ → 50K+ down

Competes with

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