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Search Autocomplete by Dotcomjungle

by dotcomjungle · Search

A customizable search widget that autocompletes the titles of products, blog posts, events, or anything else you choose.

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

41 health vs 63 average across 304 Search 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.24, 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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 15/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2509 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+14% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

113

now · peak 113

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

Search Autocomplete · #43782 DOOFINDER Search and · #4291 SearchIQ · #5902 Search with Typesens · #8086

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

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

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

Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
6.9y ago
Added
2019-09-03 · 6 yrs on WP
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
5.2.24
Requires PHP
7.0.0

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-01-22 20+ → 10+ down after 84 days in band
  2. 2023-10-30 10+ → 20+ up after 63 days in band
  3. 2023-08-28 20+ → 10+ down after 26 days in band
  4. 2023-08-02 10+ → 20+ up after 138 days in band
  5. 2023-03-17 20+ → 10+ down after 28 days in band
  6. 2023-02-17 10+ → 20+ up

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Search Autocomplete by Dotcomjungle: 10+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/dcj-search-autocomplete