Easy Maintenance
by Mitch · Admin & Utilities
The most lightweight WordPress solution for quick maintenances.
45 health vs 53 average across 2,866 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, 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 3651 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
140
now · peak 140
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
At the current install trend, crossing 30+ in roughly 99 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-15 30+ → 20+ down after 24 days in tier
- 2026-06-21 40+ → 30+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2026-06-15 10+ → 40+ up after 870 days in tier
- 2024-01-27 20+ → 10+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- M Minimal Maintenance Mode 600+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
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Maintenance 1M+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Under Construction, Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Slim Maintenance Mode 10K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Maintenance Redirect 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Coming soon and Maintenance mode 9K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B
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