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Simple banner – Lightweight Announcement Banner Without jQuery

by 56 Degrees · Uncategorized

Simple banner a lightweight WordPress plugin without jQuery, allows adding a simple banner for announcements on your site. Perfect for notifications.

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
59 Health · C
Maintenance 44/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

59 health vs 56 average across 12,247 Uncategorized plugins

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.

75 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 53/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 513 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2024-07-22 · 725 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-22% vs prior 30d
Jul 24
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

32

now · peak 114

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

Simple banner · #18212 Simple Banner · #776 Announcement Banner · #15183 TinyBar · #17338

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

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

tracked estimate
70–80 ≈77

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

At the current install trend, crossing 80+ in roughly 541 days.

Install history · since 2024-07-24 · 720 observations

Details

Version
1.2.2
Last updated
1.4y ago
Added
2024-07-22 · 1 yr on WP
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
6.7.5
Requires PHP
7.4

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-02-11 60+ → 70+ up after 3 days in tier
  2. 2026-02-08 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-07 60+ → 70+ up after 9 days in tier
  4. 2026-01-29 70+ → 60+ down after 19 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-10 60+ → 70+ up after 69 days in tier
  6. 2025-11-02 50+ → 60+ up after 109 days in tier
  7. 2025-07-16 40+ → 50+ up after 46 days in tier
  8. 2025-05-31 50+ → 40+ down after 4 days in tier

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Simple banner – Lightweight Announcement Banner Without jQuery: 70+ active installs, 3.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/fsd-simple-banner