Easy Primary Category
by Gagan Deep Singh · Uncategorized
Allows you to choose primary category for posts and custom post types.
Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing
Directory rank
Popularity rank over time · lower is better
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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 “1K+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2020-12-02 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-02-27 900+ → 1K+ up after 78 days in band
- 2024-12-11 800+ → 900+ up after 12 days in band
- 2024-11-29 900+ → 800+ down after 4 days in band
- 2024-11-25 800+ → 900+ up after 261 days in band
- 2024-03-09 700+ → 800+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-03-07 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-03-06 700+ → 800+ up after 488 days in band
- 2022-11-04 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Search & Filter 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag B -
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
Category Posts Widget 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A -
Media Library Categories 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A -
Add Category to Pages 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag D
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