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Force jQuery in Head

by Jagdish Sarma · Uncategorized

Force jQuery in Head plugin add jQuery in top of the head in the site.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews

Health

C 56/100

Stale · Few reviews

Active installs

200+

≈290 estimated

Momentum

+10%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 40/100. Last updated 657 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

How scoring works →
56 Health · C
Maintenance 31/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

56 health vs 58 average across 25,763 Uncategorized plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

4.8%

of downloads still active

At least 200 of 4.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,773 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Details

Version
1.0.4
Last updated
1.8y ago
Added
2020-05-21 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
4.4
Tested up to
6.7.11
Requires PHP
5.6

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.

69 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 40/100

Updated 657 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.7.11; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 51/100

5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 657 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+10% vs prior 30d
71 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 190 · peaks are release surges

991 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

561 Nov 2026

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.

4951 Nov 2026

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈290

Crossed into this band 2.6 years ago; the previous band took 17 months to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

Install history since 4 Oct 2022

2001 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Jimmy Lee
    6.4y ago

    5-Stars Buddy! Thank You!

    Read on wp.org ↗

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

2 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Force jQuery in Head plugin add jQuery in top of the head in the site."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 172 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "jQuery in Header", "jQuery in Top Head" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-03-16 100+ → 200+ up after 507 days in tier
  2. 2022-10-26 90+ → 100+ up after 20 days in tier
  3. 2022-10-06 80+ → 90+ up

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Force jQuery in Head: 200+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/force-jquery-in-head

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