Google AdSense for Responsive Design – GARD
by The Plugin Factory · Uncategorized
GARD (Google AdSense for Responsive Design) allows you to easily place Responsive Google AdSense in your WordPress website's content.
43 health vs 55 average across 14,496 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, 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 3735 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
34
now · peak 84
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-03 200+ → 100+ down after 440 days in tier
- 2025-02-17 300+ → 200+ down after 9 days in tier
- 2025-02-08 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-02-07 300+ → 200+ down after 16 days in tier
- 2025-01-22 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-01-20 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2025-01-18 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-01-17 300+ → 200+ down after 6 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Quick Adsense 20K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D -
Wp-Insert 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D -
In-feed ads for Google AdSense 6K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Easy Google AdSense 5K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
WP Simple Adsense Insertion 3K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags C -
AdFlow – Easy Google AdSense Integration 3K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
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