Extended Recent Comments
by Louy Alakkad · Admin & Utilities
Add a recent comments widget that shows Gravatars.
41 health vs 57 average across 1,506 Admin & Utilities 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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5, 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 5142 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
23
now · peak 63
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-07-10 20+ → 10+ down after 524 days in band
- 2025-02-01 30+ → 20+ down after 11 days in band
- 2025-01-21 20+ → 30+ up after 155 days in band
- 2024-08-19 30+ → 20+ down after 252 days in band
- 2023-12-11 40+ → 30+ down after 9 days in band
- 2023-12-02 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-12-01 40+ → 30+ down after 13 days in band
- 2023-11-18 30+ → 40+ up after 8 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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AnyComment 5K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags D -
Bulk Delete Comments 5K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Comments Like Dislike 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
One Click Close Comments 4K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C -
Relative URL 3K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D -
Better Recent Comments 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags C
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