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Google+ Plus WordPress Widget

by Patrick Chia · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 6 other plugins · 160+ installs across the portfolio →

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Display updates/post from one or more Google+ Plus accounts a WordPress widget. Included QR code for Google+ Profile.

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

43 health vs 54 average across 3,792 Admin & Utilities plugins

10+

Active installs

≈17 estimated

27.1K

Total downloads

since 2011

3.75★

Rating (adjusted)

2.0★ raw · 1 reviews

-8%

176

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5098 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-8% vs prior 30d
8Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

176

now · peak 299

18430d 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

Google+ Plus WordPre · #28450 you Widgets for Google R · #68 Kaya QR Code Generat · #1442 Ad Widget for WordPr · #4498

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.

18.4Kper 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

14.0y ago

latest release · v4.0

6

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.0 · 14.0y ago3.0 · 15.0y ago2.5 · 15.1y ago2.0 · 15.1y ago1.5 · 15.1y ago1.0 · 15.1y 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.

v5.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈17

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

At the current install trend, crossing 20+ in roughly 200 days.

Install history · since 2021-07-15 · 1,385 observations

10Installs · 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.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
0 4★
0 3★
0 2★
1 1★
0

Details

Version
5.0
Last updated
14.0y ago
Added
2011-08-01 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ AndyCG
    13.6y ago

    This plugin does work (in that, it shows posts from Google+ on your blog). However it is written in some of the worst PHP code I’ve seen in years. The time saved installing this was pretty much negated by cleaning up the messy code it produces. Pretty much every convention developed by the PHP community over the last 10 years or so has been ignored. 2 stars for working and miraculously not appearing to have any obviously security holes.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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. 2026-07-10 20+ → 10+ down after 92 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-09 10+ → 20+ up after 8 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-01 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-29 10+ → 20+ up after 45 days in tier
  5. 2026-02-12 20+ → 10+ down after 440 days in tier
  6. 2024-11-29 30+ → 20+ down after 418 days in tier
  7. 2023-10-08 40+ → 30+ down after 268 days in tier
  8. 2023-01-13 50+ → 40+ down

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Google+ Plus WordPress Widget: 10+ active installs, 2.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/google-wordpress-widgets