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Easy Heads Up Bar

by Greenweb · Uncategorized

Also makes 1 other plugin · 110+ installs across the portfolio →

The Easy Heads Up Bar Plugin allows you to quickly add a customizable notification bar to your WordPress website.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

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 4.6.30, 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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 7/100
Rating quality 73/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3682 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

+45% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

55

now · peak 88

5530d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

14.2KRank · Jul 26

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.5Stars · 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.

550per 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

11.7y ago

latest release · v2.1.7

6

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.1.7 · 11.7y ago2.1.5 · 12.1y ago2.1.4 · 12.1y ago2 · 12.2y ago0.2 · 12.2y ago0.1 · 14.7y 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.

v2.1 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈170

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

Install history · since 2015-06-21 · 1,388 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.

Details

Version
2.1.7
Last updated
10.1y ago
Added
2011-06-26 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.6.30
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. Kenelli
    9.9y ago

    Excellent plugin ! I was waiting for something like that for a while. The only little bad thing, it’s that you are forced to select a border color that does the bar look bigger. I Wanted to removed it, with no success… Keep going !

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  2. wocmultimedia
    11.2y ago

    First, I want to thank you the developer because he solved quickly an issue. This plugin was conflicting with another I had installed and he solved the issue in a few hours. I found out this Bar very useful and easy to set up. I recommend to all people needing a simple action bar. I suggest the author to add a better selection option for where the bar has to appear. I mean it would be nice if without the use of shortcode I can choose the page or the URL where a single bar can appear. In this moment you have only 3 options limiting the use of this great plugin. Anyhow, thanks a lot for developing this great tool.

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  3. Kathy_Goss
    11.8y ago

    I tested quite a few notification bars. I was looking for one that had power and flexibility but was still very easy for our users to use. This is it.

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  4. maximus777
    11.8y ago

    The bar works on all browsers, even bypasses plugins like Adblock and Disconect. Its extremely easy to set up, and you will see instantly see results. It even works fine on the mobile version of my site. Lastly the Author is very helpful and is quick to respond to questions. A very good plugin overall.

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  5. DashingPartycrasher
    11.9y ago

    I really hate to give bad reviews, but this doesn’t allow me to set a page link (am I missing this somewhere?) and even when I selected the bar to appear at the TOP of the page, it only appeared at the bottom!! (I even updated it again for “top” and it still only shows on the bottom.) And on my Galaxy S4 Android phone, the box is no longer 100% across but a tiny fraction of that size…it looks silly. And the box has no clickable link, since there was no option for that in the settings. If I’m supposed to add html for that okay, but why not just include it in the settings options? Finally, the font color setting didn’t work; it only works in the text editor box. Nice try, but too many bugs.

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  6. pezomatic
    12.0y ago

    This is a great plugin if you have content on your site or a message that you want to stand out to visitors. The interface is clean and easy to use. The ability to use shortcodes in the content area is a very powerful option that opens up many possibilities of how you can use this bar.

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  7. mannuforall
    12.1y ago

    This is one the best bar I’ve tried. Easy to manage and place. Great editing area. Lots of premium like features. And support is superb from Dev. Quick replies and hard work to fixing user reported issues.

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  8. eldenroot
    13.0y ago

    Better than WP notification bar… thank you!

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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. 2025-12-02 200+ → 100+ down after 352 days in tier
  2. 2024-12-15 300+ → 200+ down after 236 days in tier
  3. 2024-04-23 400+ → 300+ down after 221 days in tier
  4. 2023-09-15 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2023-09-14 400+ → 500+ up after 9 days in tier
  6. 2023-09-05 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2023-09-04 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2023-09-03 500+ → 400+ down after 200 days in tier

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