Floating Widgets
by affilisites · Admin & Utilities
Adds a dynamic widget area to begining of post or page
41 health vs 57 average across 1,404 Admin & Utilities 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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5, 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 5679 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
55
now · peak 156
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-09-25 30+ → 20+ down after 44 days in band
- 2025-08-12 40+ → 30+ down after 360 days in band
- 2024-08-17 50+ → 40+ down after 297 days in band
- 2023-10-25 60+ → 50+ down after 188 days in band
- 2023-04-20 70+ → 60+ down after 7 days in band
- 2023-04-13 60+ → 70+ up after 5 days in band
- 2023-04-08 70+ → 60+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Blocksy Companion 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Widget Importer & Exporter 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Widget Context 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A - S SpiceBox 20K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B
- C Custom Post Type Widgets 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
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Widget Content Blocks 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
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