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Custom Category Template

by Bainternet · Uncategorized

This plugin lets you select a specific template for a category, just like pages

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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42 Health · D
Maintenance 3
Rating quality 66
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-43%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

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 “2K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

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

Install trend · reconstructed from 1379 daily snapshots

Details

Version
0.4
Last updated
8.6y ago
Added
2012-05-05
Requires WP
2.9.2
Tested up to
4.7.0
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-03-01 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in band
  2. 2024-02-29 2K+ → 3K+ up after 3 days in band
  3. 2024-02-26 3K+ → 2K+ down after 2 days in band
  4. 2024-02-24 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in band
  5. 2024-02-23 3K+ → 2K+ down after 2 days in band
  6. 2024-02-21 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in band
  7. 2024-02-20 3K+ → 2K+ down after 475 days in band
  8. 2022-11-02 4K+ → 3K+ down after 1 days in band

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Custom Category Template: 2K+ active installs, 3.3★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/custom-category-template