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Gigs Calendar

by DanCoulter · Booking & Events

Also makes 6 other plugins · 540+ installs across the portfolio →

Manage and display a calendar of your gigs/shows/performances.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 68/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 67 average across 981 Booking & Events plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 4.0.38, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4295 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+90% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

76

now · peak 121

7630d downloads · Aug 26

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

Gigs Calendar · #11956 you LabelGrid Tools · #19649 Discography · #25124 The Events Calendar · #94

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.3Stars · Aug 26

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.

380per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

11.8y ago

latest release · v0.4.12.1

30

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.4.12.1 · 11.8y ago0.4.12 · 11.8y ago0.4.11 · 13.7y ago0.4.10 · 14.2y ago0.4.9 · 16.2y ago0.4.8 · 16.2y ago0.4.7 · 16.9y ago0.4.6 · 17.2y ago0.4.5 · 17.2y ago0.4.4 · 17.5y ago0.4.3 · 17.6y ago0.4.2 · 17.7y ago0.4.1 · 18.1y ago0.4.0 · 18.2y ago

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.

v0.4 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈260

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

Install history · since 2015-09-12 · 1,384 observations

200Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
0.4.12.1
Last updated
11.8y ago
Added
2008-01-03 · 18 yrs old
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
4.0.38
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. tschoepi
    11.8y ago

    It does what I expected. It’s easy to handle and I didn’t have any problems all over the years. Still runs with WordPress 4.0. Thanks for that!

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  2. merseybeat
    12.2y ago

    I was really excited when I installed this plugin, it looked like it was perfect for me and my users to add our gigs! Then I realized its major flaw! and it is a major flaw that breaks every rule! It does not care who is logged in? In fact it does not even record which user posted what? Which means you have no clue who the gig entry was posted by??? Whats more any user can alter any other users entries including admins??? Its such a shame because the developer has obviously put a lot of work into this plugin but has broken the most fundamental rule of a WP plugin! I personally would pay for this but not with such a major issue as ignoring the user??? Eddie Hughes

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  3. BeepBoop
    13.5y ago

    Big thanks to the creator of this plugin, it has been working for me successfully for 2 years now. Also when a new WordPress update messed with the plugin, the author came back here to fix it for us. Much appreciated, keep it up.

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  4. Anonymous User
    13.8y ago

    Four tables are left behind in the database if you decide the plugin isn’t what you need and uninstall it.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-01-11 300+ → 200+ down after 25 days in tier
  2. 2025-12-17 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-12-16 300+ → 200+ down after 417 days in tier
  4. 2024-10-25 400+ → 300+ down after 212 days in tier
  5. 2024-03-27 500+ → 400+ down after 236 days in tier
  6. 2023-08-04 600+ → 500+ down after 176 days in tier
  7. 2023-02-09 700+ → 600+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2023-02-07 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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