Gatekeeper
by jamiewilson · Admin & Utilities
Gatekeeper allows administrators to take a WordPress site offline while leaving it accessible to authorized users for maintenance, testing, etc.
44 health vs 56 average across 1,760 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.28, 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 3189 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
88
now · peak 195
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 “200+”. 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
- 2025-07-18 300+ → 200+ down after 50 days in band
- 2025-05-29 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-05-28 300+ → 200+ down after 451 days in band
- 2024-03-03 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-03-02 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-02-29 400+ → 300+ down after 354 days in band
- 2023-03-12 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in band
- 2023-03-09 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
-
CM E-Mail Blacklist – Simple email filtering for safer registration 800+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A -
Maintenance Switch 700+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A - U User Domain Whitelist 300+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
- M My Maintenance Mode 200+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
-
Hostinger Tools 3M+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B -
Maintenance 1M+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
Embed this report card
Drop a live Pulse card for Gatekeeper into a readme, a review or a deck. It updates itself.
<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/gatekeeper" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Gatekeeper — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Gatekeeper: 200+ active installs, 3.7★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/gatekeeper