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CSS to Footer

by zeoman · Uncategorized

CSS to Footer is a easy-weight plugin. It takes CSS files you chosen, and brings them to the footer to accelerate site loading speed.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 12,581 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.24, 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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 15/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2340 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

-50% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

56

now · peak 168

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

CSS to Footer · #20575 Assets to footer · #13184 Simple Header Footer · #3870 Easy Header Footer · #14592

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 “50+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
50–60 ≈57

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
6.4y ago
Added
2020-02-18 · 6 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
5.2.24
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-23 60+ → 50+ down after 11 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-12 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-11 60+ → 50+ down after 138 days in tier
  4. 2025-11-24 50+ → 60+ up after 8 days in tier
  5. 2025-11-16 60+ → 50+ down after 13 days in tier
  6. 2025-11-03 50+ → 60+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2025-11-01 60+ → 50+ down after 313 days in tier
  8. 2024-12-23 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier

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CSS to Footer: 50+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/css-to-footer