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Disable Drop Cap

by joppuyo · Blocks

A plugin to disable drop cap option in the Gutenberg editor block editor paragraph block

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
49 Health · D
Maintenance 15/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

49 health vs 69 average across 989 Blocks plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

58 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 23/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 942 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

-25% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

33

now · peak 130

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

Disable Drop Cap · #20958 Classic Widgets · #25 Classic Editor · #4 Advanced Editor Tool · #30

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

tracked estimate
50–60 ≈59

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Details

Version
2.1.9
Last updated
2.6y ago
Added
2021-11-02 · 4 yrs on WP
Requires WP
5.5
Tested up to
6.4.8
Requires PHP
7.0

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-07-08 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in band
  2. 2025-07-07 50+ → 40+ down after 137 days in band
  3. 2025-02-20 60+ → 50+ down after 15 days in band
  4. 2025-02-05 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in band
  5. 2025-02-04 60+ → 50+ down after 6 days in band
  6. 2025-01-29 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in band
  7. 2025-01-28 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in band
  8. 2025-01-27 50+ → 60+ up after 2 days in band

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Disable Drop Cap: 50+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/disable-drop-cap