Gunner Technology Authorship

The Gunner Technology Authorship plugin allows WordPress authors to add their social credentials to their articles and author pages and creates the au …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 63 average across 361 Social plugins

10+

Active installs

≈16 estimated

2.4K

Total downloads

since 2012

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-42%

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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2, 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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 1/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5258 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

-42% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 57

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

Gunner Technology Au · #41320 Nextend Social Login · #261 Social Media Widget · #1064 SEO Friendly Images · #1424

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

modeled estimate

10–20 ≈16

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,372 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 0.0.3
Last updated: 14.4y ago
Added: 2012-01-21 · 14 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.3.2
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

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

No band crossings observed yet.

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