Enhanced Admin Bar with Codex Search
by Justin Sternberg · Uncategorized
Also makes 7 other plugins · 301.3K+ installs across the portfolio →
Contributors: jtsternberg, underblob Plugin Name: Enhanced Admin Bar with Codex Search and Custom Menus Plugin URI: http://dsgnwrks.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈1.5K estimated
Momentum
+25%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 0/100. Last updated 3262 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.0%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 99.8K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,778 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
51/100Maintenance 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- No tested-up-to version. The listing declares no "Tested up to" version.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3262 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
No "Tested up to" declared, treated as a major version behind
5.0★ over 1 review, weighted for review count to 4.1★ and held back under 25 reviews
0 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3262 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 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 264 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
8.9y ago
latest release · v2.0.7 · 28 Nov 2017
6
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3.3 years ago; the previous band took 23 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 5 Sep 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ lminervino13.9y ago
Real deliver. Great plugin, gets the job done.
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 77 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings
Plus 53 more locales with partial translations.
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
1 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Installation Instructions").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,142 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text No tags set.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2023-07-02 2K+ → 1K+ down after 704 days in tier
- 2021-07-28 3K+ → 2K+ down after 348 days in tier
- 2020-08-14 8K+ → 3K+ down
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