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Display PHP Version

by David Gwyer · Admin & Utilities

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Displays the currently installed PHP/MySQL version in the "At a Glance" admin dashboard widget.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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52 Health · D
Maintenance 7/100
Rating quality 92/100
Support 70/100

52 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

30K+

Active installs

≈36K estimated

503.9K

Total downloads

since 2011

4.63★

Rating (adjusted)

4.9★ raw · 35 reviews

+18%

735

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

Removal-risk signals

45/100

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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.

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.

61 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 14/100
WP compatibility 53/100
Rating quality 89/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1197 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 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+18% vs prior 30d
12Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

735

now · peak 32.5K

74630d 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

Display PHP Version · #985 you PHP Version · #3246 WP PHP Version Displ · #4006 Admin Menu Editor · #159

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.9Stars · Aug 26

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.

25per 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

3.3y ago

latest release · v1.8

8

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.8 · 3.3y ago1.7 · 5.3y ago1.6 · 5.3y ago1.5 · 7.3y ago1.4 · 9.7y ago1.3 · 9.7y ago1.2 · 12.3y ago1.0 · 15.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 78% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.8 78%
v1.7 11%
v1.5 8.7%
Older / other versions 2.4%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
30K–40K ≈36K

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

Install history · since 2015-09-16 · 1,473 observations

30KInstalls · 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.

Ratings · 35 reviews

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5★
34 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.8
Last updated
3.3y ago
Added
2011-07-26 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.2.11
Requires PHP
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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 1.7 Fixed minor caching issue preventing PHP version displaying straight away (unless you did a hard browser refresh) when upgrading plugin from v1.5 to v1.6. This is fixed in v1.7. 1.7
  2. — Version 1.6 Tested plugin for WordPress 5.7.1. Added donate link. Plugin now also displays MySQL version too when hovering over the PHP version text. 1.6
  3. — Version 1.5 Tested plugin for WordPress 5.1. 1.5
  4. — Version 1.4 Plugin meta information, and a link, updated. 1.4
  5. — Version 1.3 Minor update for WordPress 4.7 compatibility, and some formatting changes. 1.3
  6. — Version 1.2 Added more reliable way to output PHP version number. 1.2

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2

✓ 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. 2026-02-04 40K+ → 30K+ down after 339 days in tier
  2. 2025-03-02 50K+ → 40K+ down after 359 days in tier
  3. 2024-03-08 60K+ → 50K+ down after 3 days in tier
  4. 2024-03-05 50K+ → 60K+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2024-03-03 60K+ → 50K+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-03-02 50K+ → 60K+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-03-01 60K+ → 50K+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2024-02-28 50K+ → 60K+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

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