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Guestbook Generator

by Andrew DS a11n · Uncategorized

Instantly generates a guestbook for Wordpress blogs based on the active theme.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 56 average across 11,122 Uncategorized plugins

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 19+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.1, 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.

24 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 0/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 52/100

To rank higher: Last updated 7059 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

-65% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

32

now · peak 94

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

Guestbook Generator · #12361 Gwolle Guestbook · #1141 WP-ViperGB · #10015 Reverse Order Commen · #13769

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

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈290

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,370 observations

Details

Version
0.8
Last updated
19.3y ago
Added
2007-03-20 · 19 yrs on WP
Requires WP
2.0
Tested up to
2.1
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-11-30 300+ → 200+ down after 529 days in band
  2. 2023-06-20 400+ → 300+ down after 8 days in band
  3. 2023-06-12 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in band
  4. 2023-06-10 400+ → 300+ down

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Guestbook Generator: 200+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/guestbook-generator