Expanding Archives
by Ashley · Admin & Utilities
This plugin adds a new widget where you can view your old posts by expanding certain years and months.
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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 “3K+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 4K+ in roughly 119 days.
Install history · since 2015-12-01 · 1,383 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-04-19 2K+ → 3K+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-04-16 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-04-15 2K+ → 3K+ up after 373 days in band
- 2025-04-07 3K+ → 2K+ down after 264 days in band
- 2024-07-17 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-07-16 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-07-15 2K+ → 3K+ up after 293 days in band
- 2023-09-26 1K+ → 2K+ up after 139 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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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/expanding-archives" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Expanding Archives — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Expanding Archives: 3K+ active installs, 4.7★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-15. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/expanding-archives