Floating Admin Button
by cageehv · Admin & Utilities
This plugin replaces the admin bar (at the top of the frontend screen) by a sticky 'Go To Admin Screen' button
45 health vs 56 average across 1,820 Admin & Utilities plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.13.
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 1833 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
20
now · peak 71
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 · 1,371 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-02-16 20+ → 10+ down after 130 days in band
- 2025-10-09 10+ → 20+ up after 41 days in band
- 2025-08-29 20+ → 10+ down after 128 days in band
- 2025-04-23 30+ → 20+ down after 52 days in band
- 2025-03-02 20+ → 30+ up after 11 days in band
- 2025-02-19 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in band
- 2025-02-16 20+ → 30+ up after 4 days in band
- 2025-02-12 30+ → 20+ down after 18 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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- A Admin Bar Toggle 400+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
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Animate It! 20K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag B - F Forget About Shortcode Buttons 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag C
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