Front-end Category Management
by Manish Kumar Agarwal · Uncategorized
A handy and simple plugin for creating/editing categories/terms and sub-categories on the WordPress user end.
45 health vs 59 average across 6,647 Uncategorized 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, 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 4225 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
48
now · peak 155
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 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-06-16 30+ → 20+ down after 10 days in band
- 2025-06-06 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-06-05 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-06-04 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-06-03 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in band
- 2025-05-26 20+ → 30+ up after 37 days in band
- 2025-04-19 30+ → 20+ down after 9 days in band
- 2025-04-10 20+ → 30+ up after 4 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- F Front-end Categories 10+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
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Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Enhanced Category Pages 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D -
Post Category Filter (WP Admin) 1K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
JSM Show Term Metadata 900+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
Bulk Add Terms 800+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
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