Custom Menu Icons
by Sandip Mondal - a11n · Admin & Utilities
Add icons from Font Awesome, Material Design and Dashicons to your menu items EASILY!
41 health vs 53 average across 2,902 Admin & Utilities plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.7.15.
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 1854 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
92
now · peak 189
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
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-10 20+ → 30+ up after 36 days in tier
- 2026-06-04 30+ → 20+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2026-05-29 20+ → 30+ up after 28 days in tier
- 2026-05-01 30+ → 20+ down after 146 days in tier
- 2025-12-06 40+ → 30+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2025-11-22 30+ → 40+ up after 479 days in tier
- 2024-07-31 40+ → 30+ down after 81 days in tier
- 2024-05-11 30+ → 40+ up after 5 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Menu Icons by Themeisle – Add Icons to Navigation Menus 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
WP Menu Icons 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Popular Brand Icons – Simple Icons 3K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag D -
Easy Menu Icons – Awesome Menu Icons 700+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
The Menu: Custom mobile navigation with icons 400+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B -
Material UI Menu Icons – Nifty Menu Options 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag D
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