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Custom Post Type Cleanup

by keesiemeijer · Uncategorized

Also makes 4 other plugins · 11.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

Detect and delete posts from custom post types that are no longer in use

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
58 Health · C
Maintenance 19/100
Rating quality 94/100
Support 70/100

58 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

44 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 27/100
WP compatibility 77/100
Rating quality 89/100
Listing tuning 20/100
Support resolution 0/100

To rank higher: Last updated 861 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+66% vs prior 30d
12Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

179

now · peak 1.3K

17530d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

6.1KRank · Aug 26

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.

175per 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

2.4y ago

latest release · v1.3.2

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.2 · 2.4y ago1.3.0 · 6.0y ago1.2.0 · 7.5y ago1.1.0 · 8.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 98%
v1.2 2.4%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install history · since 2019-12-08 · 1,422 observations

1KInstalls · 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
1.3.2
Last updated
2.4y ago
Added
2017-08-19 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
5.9
Tested up to
6.5.10
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. Slava Abakumov
    1.7y ago

    So I didn’t have to 🙂 Awesome little handy tool to clean up old sites from obsolete CPTs and their post meta. I wish it also supported custom taxonomies that were registered for those obsolete CPTs.

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  2. designituk
    2.3y ago

    Great plugin works perfectly

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  3. rothschild86
    2.3y ago

    Thank you!

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  4. tenserd
    2.3y ago

    Its a really simple to use plugin and working right out of the box. A nice feature would be (if that is possible at all) to clean up abandoned taxonomies, too. Thx for this nice plugin!

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  5. Manou Allou
    2.4y ago

    What a useful, little plugin! It helps clean up the database and keep it clean from old and obsolete CPTs. Bravo to the developer who also swiftly updated it to the latest version shortly after my support request. What else can you ask for?

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  6. nene
    3.3y ago

    Worked also for me today, hope it gets updates and keeps working, really usefull plugin.

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  7. RK
    3.9y ago

    This is an extremely useful plugin. It removes thousands of uselessly accumulated posts that bloat the database of plugins that are no longer used.

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  8. m4nuelgraph
    4.1y ago

    This is my very first review. If I could give it 10 stars, I would. I love a clean WordPress installation. However, after using WordPress for some time, you get extra post types, most of which you can’t even see unless you have a plugin or you know what you are doing. With this plugin I have been able to delete the extra post types that I’m not using, reducing the size of my WordPress installation.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.2

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Dutch 42%
German 10%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-04-14 2K+ → 1K+ down after 13 days in tier
  2. 2023-04-01 1K+ → 2K+ up

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