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Easy Announcement Bar

by Amzil Ayoub · Uncategorized

Also makes 3 other plugins · 50+ installs across the portfolio →

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Easy Announcement Bar plugin adds a customizable, scrolling announcement bar to your WordPress site.

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
59 Health · C
Maintenance 46/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

59 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins

40+

Active installs

≈47 estimated

854

Total downloads

since 2025

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

+49%

58

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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.

74 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 54/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 501 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2025-03-24 · 525 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+49% vs prior 30d
2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

58

now · peak 97

5830d 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

Easy Announcement Ba · #21993 you Holiday Notification · #29112 Simple Banner · #773 Announcement Banner · #15183

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.

1.4Kper 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

1.4y ago

latest release · v1.2.0

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.0 · 1.4y ago1.0.0 · 1.4y 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈47

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

At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 123 days.

Install history · since 2025-03-24 · 479 observations

40Installs · 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 · 0 reviews

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Details

Version
1.2.0
Last updated
1.4y ago
Added
2025-03-24 · 1 yr old
Requires WP
6.0
Tested up to
6.8.8
Requires PHP
7.4
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.2

✓ 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. 2026-06-12 30+ → 40+ up after 101 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-03 20+ → 30+ up after 3 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-28 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in tier
  4. 2026-02-24 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-02-23 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-02-22 20+ → 30+ up after 80 days in tier
  7. 2025-12-04 10+ → 20+ up after 153 days in tier
  8. 2025-07-04 — → 10+ up

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