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Custom Scrollbar

by miunosoft · Uncategorized

Also makes 11 other plugins · 2.1K+ installs across the portfolio →

Adds a custom scrollbar to specified HTML elements.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance 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 5.7.17.

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.

45 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 28/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1877 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

+56% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

145

now · peak 304

14430d 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 Scrollbar · #4968 you Simply Better Scroll · #23558 Scroll Styler · #7253 Scrollbar · #9969

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.7Stars · 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.

72per 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

5.1y ago

latest release · v1.3.8

19

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.8 · 5.1y ago1.3.7 · 5.1y ago1.3.6 · 5.5y ago1.3.5 · 5.8y ago1.3.4 · 5.8y ago1.3.3 · 6.0y ago1.3.2 · 7.6y ago1.3.1 · 9.7y ago1.3.0 · 9.7y ago1.2.0 · 9.9y ago1.1.7 · 10.2y ago1.1.6 · 10.7y ago1.1.5 · 10.7y ago1.1.4 · 10.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.9K

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

Install history · since 2015-09-16 · 1,430 observations

2KInstalls · 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
1.3.8
Last updated
5.1y ago
Added
2015-07-04 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.4
Tested up to
5.7.17
Requires PHP

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.3.8 Fixed a bug that caused a PHP syntax error in PHP below 7.3. 1.3.8
  2. Version 1.3.7 Fixed dynamic UI elements which did not toggle the visibility. Fixed JQMIGRATE warnings in the browser console. 1.3.7
  3. Version 1.3.6 Fixed an incompatibility issue with PHP 8.0, which the setting UI did not load. Fixed an incompatibility issue with WordPress 5.6 which comes with jQuery 3.5. 1.3.6
  4. Version 1.3.5 Added a custom JavaScript event that is triggered right after a scrollbar is initialized. Fixed some non-sanitized raw HTTP request arrays handled when the setting form is submitted. 1.3.5
  5. Version 1.3.4 Tweaked the style of some UI elements. Fixed a bug of double slashes on resource URLs. Fixed a bug that scrollbar options were not passed properly when the target element is not found. Fixed a bug that the default option 1.3.4
  6. Version 1.3.3 Fixed an incompatibility issue with WordPress 5.5 regarding radio input buttons. 1.3.3

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.7.2

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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-12-26 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2024-12-25 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2024-12-24 3K+ → 2K+ down after 736 days in tier
  4. 2022-12-19 4K+ → 3K+ down

Competes with

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