Display Authors Widget
by Sami Keijonen · Admin & Utilities
Display authors by role.
45 health vs 60 average across 1,049 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34, 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 4031 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
40
now · peak 85
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-11-08 200+ → 100+ down after 494 days in band
- 2024-07-02 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-06-30 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-06-29 300+ → 200+ down after 358 days in band
- 2023-07-07 400+ → 300+ down after 239 days in band
- 2022-11-10 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in band
- 2022-11-08 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in band
- 2022-11-06 500+ → 400+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Meks Smart Author Widget 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags C -
Restrict Widgets 4K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D -
Smart User Slug Hider 3K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags C - C cbnet Multi Author Comment Notification 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
- A Authors Widget 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
- L LJ Multi Column Archive 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/display-authors-widget" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Display Authors Widget — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Display Authors Widget: 100+ active installs, 4.4★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/display-authors-widget