Featured Users
by Jeremy Selph · Login & Users
Allows the administrator to make users featured. All it does is give the user a custom meta field called jsfeatured_user. Now available are a shortcod …
41 health vs 63 average across 646 Login & Users 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.25, 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 2740 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
56
now · peak 140
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 2022-10-05 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2023-09-20 20+ → 10+ down after 180 days in band
- 2023-03-24 10+ → 20+ up after 25 days in band
- 2023-02-27 20+ → 10+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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User Switching 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Simple Local Avatars 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
One User Avatar | User Profile Picture 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
Featured Image from URL (FIFU) 70K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
User Profile Picture 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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