Easy Categories Management Widget
by Robinsh · Admin & Utilities
This plugin adds a widget which let you display a list of categories in your sidebar with more features and flexibility.
45 health vs 53 average across 3,013 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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2, 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 5525 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
57
now · peak 152
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 “70+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-02-12 80+ → 70+ down after 75 days in tier
- 2025-11-29 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-11-28 80+ → 90+ up after 80 days in tier
- 2025-09-09 90+ → 80+ down after 10 days in tier
- 2025-08-30 80+ → 90+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2025-08-26 90+ → 80+ down after 85 days in tier
- 2025-06-02 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-06-01 90+ → 100+ up after 3 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- R Recent Posts by Category Widget 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags D
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Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Category Posts Widget 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Media Library Categories 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
List Custom Taxonomy Widget 9K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C -
Flexible Posts Widget 7K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
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