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Smart CSS Auto Loader

by Peter Raschendorfer · Uncategorized

Load CSS files without coding

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
55 Health · C
Maintenance 21/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

55 health vs 58 average across 7,584 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

57 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 29/100
WP compatibility 60/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 90/100

To rank higher: Last updated 821 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

-40% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

31

now · peak 280

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

Smart CSS Auto Loade · #13499 WP Add Custom CSS · #670 TJ Custom CSS · #2461 Customizer Custom CS · #9732

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 ≈140

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
5.0.3
Last updated
2.2y ago
Added
2015-09-28 · 10 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
6.3.8
Requires PHP
5.4

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-22 200+ → 100+ down after 640 days in band
  2. 2024-07-21 300+ → 200+ down after 259 days in band
  3. 2023-11-05 200+ → 300+ up after 10 days in band
  4. 2023-10-26 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
  5. 2023-10-25 200+ → 300+ up after 10 days in band
  6. 2023-10-15 300+ → 200+ down after 4 days in band
  7. 2023-10-11 200+ → 300+ up after 15 days in band
  8. 2023-09-26 300+ → 200+ down after 3 days in band

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Smart CSS Auto Loader: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/css-autoloader