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Detect Search Engine Referrer

by moazam · Search

This plugin disable w3 total cache plugin functionality if visitor is coming from search engine.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
42 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 67/100
Support 70/100

42 health vs 62 average across 347 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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4, 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.

28 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5484 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

-30% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

23

now · peak 54

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

Detect Search Engine · #29128 Automatic Cache Flus · #3457 Ads.txt and App-Ads. · #10692 PRO Sitemaps Connect · #13512

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 ≈16

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

Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,372 observations

Details

Version
0.1
Last updated
15.0y ago
Added
2011-05-30 · 15 yrs on WP
Requires WP
2.0.2
Tested up to
3.1.4
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-12-18 20+ → 10+ down after 712 days in band
  2. 2024-01-06 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in band
  3. 2024-01-02 20+ → 30+ up after 177 days in band
  4. 2023-07-09 30+ → 20+ down after 90 days in band
  5. 2023-04-10 40+ → 30+ down after 59 days in band
  6. 2023-02-10 30+ → 40+ up after 43 days in band
  7. 2022-12-29 40+ → 30+ down after 12 days in band
  8. 2022-12-17 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in band

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Detect Search Engine Referrer: 10+ active installs, 1.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/detect-search-engine-referrer