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Fixed Menu Anchor

by k00ni · Admin & Utilities

If you are using a sticky, fixed menu in your WP theme, this plugin is the best to deal with it overlapping anchored content.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 55 average across 1,973 Admin & Utilities plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 6/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3633 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-54% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

62

now · peak 173

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

Fixed Menu Anchor · #12516 Fixed And Sticky Hea · #5723 Sticky Header by The · #6523 Sticky Header Effect · #195

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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈290

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations

Details

Version
2.3
Last updated
10.0y ago
Added
2015-09-25 · 10 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.3
Tested up to
4.5.33
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-08-22 300+ → 200+ down after 30 days in band
  2. 2024-07-23 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
  3. 2024-07-21 300+ → 200+ down after 13 days in band
  4. 2024-07-08 200+ → 300+ up after 17 days in band
  5. 2024-06-21 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
  6. 2024-06-20 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in band
  7. 2024-06-16 300+ → 200+ down

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Fixed Menu Anchor: 200+ active installs, 4.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/fixed-menu-anchor