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Extended AdRotate Ad Placements

by rtddev · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 70+ installs across the portfolio →

This plugin extends the ad placements capability of the original AdRotate plugin within themes that offer dedicated ad placements outside of the stand …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5001 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+1% vs prior 30d
2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

84

now · peak 159

8430d downloads · Aug 26

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

Extended AdRotate Ad · #28063 you AdRotate Switch · #19070 Adrotate Extra Setti · #21322 Ad Builder for AdRot · #26973

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.

8.4Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v0.5 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈17

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-01-19 · 1,385 observations

10Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
0.5
Last updated
13.7y ago
Added
2012-12-19 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. cryogenn
    13.3y ago

    Spent hours trying how to research adding rotating banners in the header of one of my Woothemes. Many plugins allowed me to rotate the code in widget areas but the header was a different issue. Whatever extra piece of code this plugin adds was perfect. Would be nice if the main AdRotate plugin could do this out of the box.

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  2. Debsterism
    13.5y ago

    Just what I needed to integrate my Google Affiliate and Linkshare network ads with other banner ads. Easy to set up and easy to implement.

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  3. yoyoma1974
    13.7y ago

    Just what I was looking for!

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  4. undershirtguy
    13.7y ago

    i’ve been using solostream’s wp-davinci theme for a while now, and love the ad placement capability. i just started using adrotate and got a little discouraged when i couldn’t use adrotate short codes in some of the ad placements provided by the theme, plus i didn’t want to customize my theme’s templates. learned about this via a friend, so i just downloaded, installed, and activated this plugin. voila! the ad rotate short codes now can be used just like i can use them in posts, pages, and widgets. nice and simple!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-04-14 20+ → 10+ down after 34 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-11 10+ → 20+ up after 32 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-07 20+ → 10+ down after 371 days in tier
  4. 2025-02-01 30+ → 20+ down after 161 days in tier
  5. 2024-08-24 40+ → 30+ down after 117 days in tier
  6. 2024-04-29 60+ → 40+ down after 81 days in tier
  7. 2024-02-08 70+ → 60+ down after 212 days in tier
  8. 2023-07-11 80+ → 70+ down after 93 days in tier

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Extended AdRotate Ad Placements: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/extended-adrotate-ad-placements