Elevate Parent Category Template
by echoz · Uncategorized
Elevates parent category template to top of WordPress Loop.
41 health vs 59 average across 6,635 Uncategorized 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 3.1.4, 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 5604 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
20
now · peak 73
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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 235 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,366 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-09 30+ → 40+ up after 142 days in band
- 2026-01-18 40+ → 30+ down after 230 days in band
- 2025-06-02 60+ → 40+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-06-01 70+ → 60+ down after 181 days in band
- 2024-12-02 80+ → 70+ down after 67 days in band
- 2024-09-26 90+ → 80+ down after 96 days in band
- 2024-06-22 100+ → 90+ down after 35 days in band
- 2024-05-18 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- C Custom Category Templates 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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Loops & Logic 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Post Category 30+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D - C Category Templates 20+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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Template Kit – Import 400K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D -
Show Current Template 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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