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CWidget Countdown

by Serkan Algur · Admin & Utilities

This plugin create a widget for countdown.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 53 average across 2,863 Admin & Utilities plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.25, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 11/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2719 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-52% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

59

now · peak 160

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

CWidget Countdown · #19542 Widgets for Google R · #69 Blocksy Companion · #166 Black Studio TinyMCE · #234

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 “60+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
60–70 ≈67

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
2.0
Last updated
7.4y ago
Added
2013-11-17 · 12 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.6
Tested up to
5.0.25
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-01-05 70+ → 60+ down after 198 days in tier
  2. 2025-06-21 80+ → 70+ down after 112 days in tier
  3. 2025-03-01 90+ → 80+ down after 123 days in tier
  4. 2024-10-29 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-10-28 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-10-27 100+ → 90+ down

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CWidget Countdown: 60+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/cwidget-countdown