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Day Spelled

by Living Fossil · Multilingual

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This plugin enables you to insert a multi-lingual date with the day and month spelled out, anywhere in a site where a shortcode can be used.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 65 average across 286 Multilingual plugins

30+

Active installs

≈37 estimated

2.5K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+23%

69

Downloads · 30d

category median +23%

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 5.6.19.

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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 25/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1979 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+23% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

69

now · peak 160

6930d 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

Day Spelled · #24445 you Loco Translate · #36 Translate WordPress · #71 Polylang · #76

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.

2.3Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

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.

v1.6 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈37

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

At the current install trend, crossing 40+ in roughly 344 days.

Install history · since 2021-09-17 · 1,385 observations

30Installs · 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.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.6
Last updated
5.4y ago
Added
2015-11-22 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
5.6.19
Requires PHP
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 1 reviews to 2015-11-22
Positive Praise

The one review calls it practical and easy to use, and says it works exactly as advertised.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Widgeteer
    10.8y ago

    This is a highly practical and easy-to-use plugin. It lives up in full to the claims made for it, working as advertised.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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 128 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

French (France) 16%
Polish 16%
Slovak 16%
Spanish (Spain) 16%
Chinese (China) 14%
Danish 14%
Dutch 14%
Finnish 14%
German 14%
Greek 14%
Italian 14%
Portuguese (Brazil) 14%
Romanian 14%
Russian 14%
Swedish 14%
Czech 13%
English (Canada) 13%
Hebrew 13%
Hungarian 13%
Japanese 13%
Norwegian (Bokmål) 13%
Turkish 13%
Ukrainian 13%
Bulgarian 11%

Plus 104 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-10 20+ → 30+ up after 198 days in tier
  2. 2025-12-24 30+ → 20+ down after 17 days in tier
  3. 2025-12-07 20+ → 30+ up after 162 days in tier
  4. 2025-06-28 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in tier
  5. 2025-06-20 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2025-06-19 30+ → 20+ down after 538 days in tier
  7. 2023-12-29 40+ → 30+ down after 27 days in tier
  8. 2023-12-02 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in tier

Competes with

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