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Fix Another Update In Progress

by P Roy · Uncategorized

Also makes 5 other plugins · 9.9K+ installs across the portfolio →

Get rid of WordPress another update is already in progress

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
51 Health · D
Maintenance 7/100
Rating quality 89/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

45/100

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 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.

53 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 14/100
WP compatibility 53/100
Rating quality 88/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1204 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

+19% vs prior 30d
23Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

807

now · peak 5.4K

82130d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

2.5KRank · Aug 26

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.7Stars · Aug 26

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.

117per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 86% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.0 86%
v1.0 14%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “7K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
7K–8K ≈7.5K

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2019-07-15 · 1,428 observations

7KInstalls · 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
2.0
Last updated
3.3y ago
Added
2017-06-27 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.2.11
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. TinstarDesign
    7mo ago

    Had an issue halfway through 6.9 update. This fixed the problem.

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  2. Borderlain Estudio
    2.2y ago

    Simple but very useful.

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  3. MikepFive
    2.4y ago

    Worked Great ! – simple Button Click 👍

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  4. Masud Rana
    2.6y ago

    Clean and simple. Works perfectly.

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  5. fedecuryk
    2.8y ago

    I have this problem in version 6.3.x and this plugin solve perfectly this problem. Thanks

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  6. jackoneill
    3.1y ago

    Helped me to enable updates again.

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  7. litan77
    3.3y ago

    I can confirm the plugin works for the path 5.78 to 6.2. Thank you so much for making my life easy!

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  8. gilles66
    3.7y ago

    Works perfectly.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 2.0 Tested up to wordpress 6.2 2.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.2

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. 2026-08-23 8K+ → 7K+ down after 139 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-06 9K+ → 8K+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-05 8K+ → 9K+ up after 4 days in tier
  4. 2026-04-01 9K+ → 8K+ down after 837 days in tier
  5. 2023-12-16 10K+ → 9K+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2023-12-14 9K+ → 10K+ up after 182 days in tier
  7. 2023-06-15 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2023-06-14 9K+ → 10K+ up after 1 days in tier

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