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Development Theme

by _rg_ · Admin & Utilities

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Let use diferent themes installed for each user role actived.

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

42 health vs 54 average across 3,792 Admin & Utilities plugins

30+

Active installs

≈37 estimated

5.5K

Total downloads

since 2012

3.69★

Rating (adjusted)

3.2★ raw · 5 reviews

+82%

40

Downloads · 30d

category median +23%

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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, 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.

33 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4559 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+82% vs prior 30d
7Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

40

now · peak 69

4630d downloads · Aug 26

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

Development Theme · #22761 you View Admin As · #2299 Theme Test Drive · #2599 Fast User Switching · #5162

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

1.5Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

12.5y ago

latest release · v0.2

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.2 · 12.5y ago0.1 · 12.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈37

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

Install history · since 2019-09-15 · 1,370 observations

30Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 5 reviews

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5★
2 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
2

Details

Version
0.2
Last updated
12.5y ago
Added
2012-11-13 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.7.41
Requires PHP
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 5 reviews to 2014-12-03
Mixed PraiseCompatibilityFeature requests

Reviewers who get it working call it small, light and useful, while others hit a blank page for logged-out visitors.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ msephton
    11.8y ago

    Works well.

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  2. ★★★★★ loogaroo
    11.8y ago

    The visitors theme (not logged) shows a blank page.

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  3. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    12.9y ago

    Very useful, thanks!

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  4. ★★★★★ Den999
    13.0y ago

    for anon users

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  5. ★★★★★ Sam Hotchkiss
    13.8y ago

    Small and light! One suggestion– it would be nice to be able to target only certain admins for the new theme, and be able to target certain IPs so that you can view the new theme without being logged in.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✕ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✕ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-15 40+ → 30+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-13 30+ → 40+ up after 138 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-28 40+ → 30+ down after 312 days in tier
  4. 2025-05-20 50+ → 40+ down after 389 days in tier
  5. 2024-04-26 60+ → 50+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2024-04-24 50+ → 60+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2024-04-22 60+ → 50+ down after 8 days in tier
  8. 2024-04-14 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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