Developer Mode
by Jesper van Engelen · Admin & Utilities
Limit access to the WordPress admin panel for your clients. Block functionality like updating plugins and viewing menu items for administrators, while …
45 health vs 56 average across 1,786 Admin & Utilities 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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 4758 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
39
now · peak 101
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 “300+”. 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-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-07-05 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-07-04 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-07-03 400+ → 300+ down after 215 days in band
- 2024-11-30 500+ → 400+ down after 36 days in band
- 2024-10-25 600+ → 500+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-10-23 500+ → 600+ up after 7 days in band
- 2024-10-16 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-10-15 500+ → 600+ up after 5 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Simple Client Dashboard 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
Simply Show Hooks 2K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Loginizer 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Redux Framework 900K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A -
Admin Menu Editor 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
White Label CMS 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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