Day Spelled
by Living Fossil · Multilingual
Also makes 1 other plugin · 40+ installs across the portfolio →
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.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
30+
≈33 estimated
Momentum
-18%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “day name”, “insert date” and “month name” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
45 health vs 67 average across 496 Multilingual plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.1%
of downloads still active
At least 30 of 2.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Multilingual plugin keeps 0.8%, across 280 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Multilingual plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 5.6.23.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 1 reviews to 2015-11-22The one review calls it practical and easy to use, and says it works exactly as advertised.
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2041 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.6.23; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2041 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| day name your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| insert date your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| month name your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| spell day your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| translate date your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “day name”, “insert date” and “month name” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 160 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #23,100 to #25,000, alongside the other plugins at 30+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 31% of the way through.
At the current install trend, crossing 40+ in roughly 140 days.
Install history since 17 Sep 2021
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Widgeteer11.0y 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.
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 128 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings
Plus 104 more locales with partial translations.
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "This plugin enables you to insert a multi-lingual date with the day and month spelled out, anywhere in a si..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("use it", "use this").
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 9 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 5,841 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 5 tags appear in the text ("day name", "Insert date", "spell day", "translate date" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-10 20+ → 30+ up after 198 days in tier
- 2025-12-24 30+ → 20+ down after 17 days in tier
- 2025-12-07 20+ → 30+ up after 162 days in tier
- 2025-06-28 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in tier
- 2025-06-20 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-06-19 30+ → 20+ down after 538 days in tier
- 2023-12-29 40+ → 30+ down after 27 days in tier
- 2023-12-02 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Cyr-To-Lat 300K+ installs · 4.6★ A -
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