Delink Comment Author
by Crowd Favorite · Security
Delink Comment Author gives you the ability to remove the link a commenter left as their URL without removing the entire comment.
41 health vs 63 average across 951 Security plugins
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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.12.
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
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1484 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
32
now · peak 165
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
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-12 30+ → 20+ down after 28 days in tier
- 2026-06-14 40+ → 30+ down after 90 days in tier
- 2026-03-16 30+ → 40+ up after 30 days in tier
- 2026-02-14 40+ → 30+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2026-01-31 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-30 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-29 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-28 40+ → 30+ down after 6 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Anti-spam Reloaded 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags C - C cbnet Multi Author Comment Notification 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
- B Batch Comment Spam Deletion 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags D
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Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 6M+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A - C Cookies for Comments 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
- T Throws SPAM Away 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
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