Custom Menu Class
by Aiken1 · Admin & Utilities
Set predefined CSS classes to menu items
42 health vs 62 average across 947 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3735 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
61
now · peak 2.3K
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
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-01-29 300+ → 200+ down after 5 days in band
- 2026-01-24 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-01-23 300+ → 200+ down after 10 days in band
- 2026-01-13 200+ → 300+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-01-10 300+ → 200+ down after 353 days in band
- 2025-01-22 400+ → 300+ down after 24 days in band
- 2024-12-29 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-12-28 400+ → 300+ down after 10 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Max Mega Menu 300K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Menu Image, Icons made easy 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag B - D Duplicate Menu 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag B
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Widget CSS Classes 80K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag C -
User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility 80K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
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