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Easily Change Admin Color

by Kyle Foulks · Admin & Utilities

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Allows easy manipulation of Wordpress admin menu colors and more.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 54 average across 3,793 Admin & Utilities plugins

100+

Active installs

≈190 estimated

8.4K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.05★

Rating (adjusted)

4.7★ raw · 3 reviews

+17%

168

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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 5/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3894 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+17% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

168

now · peak 168

16830d 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

Easily Change Admin · #14829 you Remove admin menus b · #2418 Admin Menu Editor · #159 Conditional Menus · #660

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.7Stars · 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.

1.7Kper 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

10.7y ago

latest release · v2.5

16

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.5 · 10.7y ago2.51 · 10.7y ago2.11 · 11.2y ago2.01 · 12.7y ago2.0 · 12.7y ago1.11 · 12.7y ago1.0.5 · 13.3y ago0.3 · 13.4y ago1.0.2 · 13.4y ago0.3.5 · 13.4y ago1.0 · 13.4y ago0.1 · 13.4y ago1.0.3 · 13.4y ago1.0.1 · 13.4y 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.

v2.5 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

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

Install history · since 2015-04-11 · 1,386 observations

100Installs · 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 · 3 reviews

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5★
2 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
2.5
Last updated
10.7y ago
Added
2013-04-22 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
4.4.34
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ master412160
    11.3y ago

    I like it!

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  2. ★★★★★ Li-An
    13.2y ago

    I love the idea and the simplicity. Too bad the plugin do not manage submenus…

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  3. ★★★★★ Julie Kuehl
    13.4y ago

    This plugin does what it says it does. You can highlight or hide menu items as you see fit. Very useful to direct people to the most commonly used areas and hide ones that aren’t needed. Plugin is very easy to install and set up too.

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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. 2023-12-14 200+ → 100+ down

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