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Custom Class on Text Widgets

by paulOr · Admin & Utilities

Custom Class Text Widgets is a multi text widget that allows you to also define a custom class for the widget meaning you have better control over the …

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
53 Health · D
Maintenance 32/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

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

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.

71 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 41/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 649 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+5% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

206

now · peak 271

20630d 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

Custom Class on Text · #21999 you Widgets for Google R · #68 Blocksy Companion · #165 Black Studio TinyMCE · #233

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.

5.2Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

1.8y ago

latest release · v5

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

5 · 1.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 40% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 60%
v1.2 40%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈49

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

Install history · since 2015-09-15 · 1,386 observations

40Installs · 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. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.2
Last updated
1.8y ago
Added
2011-08-30 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
6.7.7
Requires PHP

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7

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. 2025-09-13 50+ → 40+ down after 179 days in tier
  2. 2025-03-18 60+ → 50+ down after 75 days in tier
  3. 2025-01-02 50+ → 60+ up after 40 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-23 60+ → 50+ down after 2 days in tier
  5. 2024-11-21 70+ → 60+ down after 146 days in tier
  6. 2024-06-28 80+ → 70+ down after 238 days in tier
  7. 2023-11-03 90+ → 80+ down after 103 days in tier
  8. 2023-07-23 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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Custom Class on Text Widgets: 40+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/custom-class-text-widget