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Notification Bar, Sticky Notification Bar, Sticky Welcome Bar for any theme

by gingerplugins · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 10.1K+ installs across the portfolio →

Easily it allows you to create a bar on top or bottom to display a notification or promotion

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
53 Health · D
Maintenance 23/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

53 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

66 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 32/100
WP compatibility 88/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 774 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

+84% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

57

now · peak 189

5730d 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

Notification Bar, St · #21674 you WPFront Notification · #785 Top Bar · #1466 Easy Notification Ba · #2273

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.

1.4Kper 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

2.1y ago

latest release · v1.1

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 2.1y ago1.0.4 · 2.8y ago1.0.3 · 3.0y ago1.0.2 · 3.0y ago1.0.1 · 3.1y 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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈49

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,375 observations

40Installs · 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
1.1
Last updated
2.1y ago
Added
2020-04-25 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
3.1
Tested up to
6.6.7
Requires PHP
5.4

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. findikhikayeleri
    9mo ago

    I like the author’s plugins. Will the plugin remain compatible with WordPress updates?

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2025-03-31 CVE-2025-31610 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.1 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.4

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. 2025-10-04 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2025-10-03 40+ → 50+ up after 45 days in tier
  3. 2025-08-19 50+ → 40+ down after 14 days in tier
  4. 2025-08-05 40+ → 50+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2025-08-03 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2025-08-02 40+ → 50+ up after 5 days in tier
  7. 2025-07-28 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2025-07-27 40+ → 50+ up after 18 days in tier

Competes with

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Notification Bar, Sticky Notification Bar, Sticky Welcome Bar for any theme: 40+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/gp-notification-bar