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Grayscale Body

by jojoee · Uncategorized

Also makes 4 other plugins · 1.6K+ installs across the portfolio →

Automatically turn the site to grayscale (may be used for some purpose)

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.7.17.

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.

45 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 28/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1911 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 · 1,428 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+114% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Sep 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

62

now · peak 218

5630d downloads · Sep 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

Grayscale Body · #13863 you Black Ribbon · #9209 Grayscale Images · #19394 WP Realtime Sitemap · #2214

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.

560per 1k installs · Sep 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

5.2y ago

latest release · v1.2.7

9

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.7 · 5.2y ago1.2.6 · 5.2y ago1.2.4 · 6.7y ago1.2.3 · 9.9y ago1.2.2 · 9.9y ago1.2.1 · 9.9y ago1.2.0 · 9.9y ago1.1.1 · 9.9y ago1.0.0 · 9.9y 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈170

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

Install history · since 2018-02-01 · 1,384 observations

100Installs · Sep 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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Details

Version
1.2.7
Last updated
5.2y ago
Added
2016-10-15 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
5.7.17
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. John Best
    4.9y ago

    Thank you very much for this plugin. It makes things feel more secure for certain purposes. This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by John Best.

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  2. arollettson
    8.6y ago

    Color blindness is a disability affecting a large minority of people. You can improve your website by using this plugin to toggle to greyscale which approximates total colour-blindness. It can instantly tell you where your choice of colors, hues, luminance and contrast makes it difficult for a colour-blind person to enjoy or even understand a website. This topic was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by arollettson.

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  3. aekburin
    9.9y ago

    this plugin was really helpful when the website needs to mourn for some purpose.

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  4. Menn
    9.9y ago

    Thank you so much for this plugin. Now WordPress websites can mourn over our Thai king’s passing, and still be able to switch to the color version.

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  5. wallsfantasy
    9.9y ago

    Install, activate, done!

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  6. jojoee
    9.9y ago

    Save my time

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.7.2

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. 2025-12-26 200+ → 100+ down after 58 days in tier
  2. 2025-10-29 100+ → 200+ up after 455 days in tier
  3. 2024-07-31 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2024-07-30 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-07-29 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2024-07-27 100+ → 200+ up after 5 days in tier
  7. 2024-07-22 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-07-21 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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