gee Search Plus, improved WordPress search

Extends WordPress search engine to taxonomies, custom fields and media, sorts results by relevance or date, and more. Simple and clean!

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned

How scoring works →

48 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 85/100

Support 70/100

48 health vs 60 average across 442 Search plugins

90+

Active installs

≈97 estimated

14.2K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.36★

Rating (adjusted)

4.7★ raw · 15 reviews

-53%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30, 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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 7/100

Rating quality 71/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3514 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-53% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 78

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

gee Search Plus, imp · #17216 Relevanssi · #353 Better Search · #3208 Super Search · #12831

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 “90+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

90–100 ≈97

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations

Ratings · 15 reviews

Details

Version: 1.4.4
Last updated: 9.6y ago
Added: 2013-03-12 · 13 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.5
Tested up to: 4.6.30
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

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

2026-06-01 100+ → 90+ down after 9 days in tier
2026-05-23 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
2026-05-22 100+ → 90+ down after 909 days in tier
2023-11-25 200+ → 100+ down

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