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Development Theme

by _rg_ · Admin & Utilities

Let use diferent themes installed for each user role actived.

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

42 health vs 63 average across 886 Admin & Utilities 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 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 4514 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-50% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

18

now · peak 69

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 View Admin As · #2311 Theme Test Drive · #2579 Fast User Switching · #5066

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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈35

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,365 observations

Details

Version
0.2
Last updated
12.4y ago
Added
2012-11-13 · 13 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.7.41
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

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

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Development Theme: 30+ active installs, 3.2★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/development-theme