Fastest Share Buttons
by Alex Moise · Social
Fastest Share Buttons for WordPress - An extremely fast and mobile friendly social share plugin - no JS, no external API, with SVG icons, cache compat …
47 health vs 59 average across 490 Social plugins
Removal-risk signals
45/100Maintenance 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1129 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
49
now · peak 144
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,383 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-07-19 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in band
- 2024-07-16 10+ → 20+ up after 9 days in band
- 2024-07-07 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-07-06 10+ → 20+ up after 6 days in band
- 2024-06-30 20+ → 10+ down after 4 days in band
- 2024-06-26 10+ → 20+ up after 19 days in band
- 2024-06-07 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-06-06 10+ → 20+ up after 5 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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WP Socializer – Simple & Easy Social Media Share Icons 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 4 shared tags C -
Hubbub Lite – Fast, free social sharing and follow buttons 30K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A -
Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A -
Social Media Feather 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A -
ShareThis Share Buttons 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B -
Social Snap — Social Share Buttons & Click to Tweet 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags B
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