Design Experiments
by Kjell Reigstad · Uncategorized
A plugin for trying out design experiments in WP-Admin. Brought to you by the WordPress Design Team.
45 health vs 56 average across 11,543 Uncategorized plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2503 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
98
now · peak 223
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-03-12 30+ → 20+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2026-02-26 20+ → 30+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-02-23 30+ → 20+ down after 338 days in tier
- 2025-03-22 40+ → 30+ down after 105 days in tier
- 2024-12-07 50+ → 40+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2024-12-02 40+ → 50+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-11-30 50+ → 40+ down after 21 days in tier
- 2024-11-09 40+ → 50+ up after 1 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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- A Adobe Fonts (formerly Typekit) for WordPress 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag C
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Customify 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag B
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