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Heroic Favicon Generator

by HeroThemes · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 14K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Heroic Favicon Generator is your one-click favicon generator for WordPress.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 90/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

6K+

Active installs

≈6.4K estimated

91.8K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.54★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 17 reviews

+128%

353

Downloads · 30d

category median +16%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.14.

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.

51 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 7/100
WP compatibility 41/100
Rating quality 75/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1566 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+128% vs prior 30d
22Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

353

now · peak 1.3K

34130d 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

Heroic Favicon Gener · #2811 you Forma Favicon · #11949 Favicon by RealFavic · #229 Favicon Rotator · #1138

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.

57per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

4.3y ago

latest release · v1.7.1

12

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.7.1 · 4.3y ago1.7.0 · 5.1y ago1.6.1 · 5.9y ago1.6.0 · 6.0y ago1.5.0 · 8.9y ago1.4.3 · 9.7y ago1.4.2 · 11.2y ago1.4.1 · 11.4y ago1.4 · 12.6y ago1.3 · 12.7y ago1.2 · 12.7y ago1.1.2 · 12.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 92% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.7 92%
Older / other versions 8.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “6K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
6K–7K ≈6.4K

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

Install history · since 2015-09-06 · 1,427 observations

6KInstalls · 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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Ratings · 17 reviews

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5★
17 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.7.1
Last updated
4.3y ago
Added
2013-11-18 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
5.5
Tested up to
6.0.14
Requires PHP
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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 1.7.1 Updated for WordPress 6.0, checking compatibility and tweaks 1.7.1
  2. — Version 1.7.0 Updated for WordPress 5.8, fixes and improvements Updated phpThumb library to v1.7.16 1.7.0
  3. — Version 1.6.1 Updating assets 1.6.1
  4. — Version 1.6.0 Updated for WordPress 5.5, various bugfixes and improvements 1.6.0
  5. — Version 1.5.0 Prioritized modern browsers for icon output Fixed bugs in favicon generator page Removed deprecated PHP calls 1.5.0
  6. — Version 1.4.3 Fixing small bugs and testing with WordPress 4.7 and PHP7 1.4.3

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.3

✓ 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more

Swedish 93%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-28 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-27 6K+ → 7K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-05-26 7K+ → 6K+ down after 213 days in tier
  4. 2025-10-25 8K+ → 7K+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-10-24 7K+ → 8K+ up after 3 days in tier
  6. 2025-10-21 8K+ → 7K+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-10-20 7K+ → 8K+ up after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-10-18 8K+ → 7K+ down after 173 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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