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HeadSpace2 SEO

by John Godley · SEO

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Controls almost every aspect of your site's meta-data, including advanced tagging, Analytics, and dozens of plugins. The best WordPress SEO solu …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 75/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 64 average across 1,223 SEO 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 61/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3195 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+63% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

232

now · peak 631

23330d 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

HeadSpace2 SEO · #3941 you Disable Title · #4650 Post Type Switcher · #272 Reveal IDs · #848

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.1Stars · Aug 26

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.

78per 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

13.7y ago

latest release · v3.6.42

9

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.6.42 · 13.7y ago3.6.41 · 14.3y ago3.6.40 · 14.3y ago3.6.39 · 14.3y ago3.6.38 · 14.3y ago3.6.37 · 14.3y ago3.6.34 · 15.1y ago3.6.35 · 15.1y ago3.6.33 · 15.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.6 99%
v3.5 0.8%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
3K–4K ≈3.6K

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

Install history · since 2015-03-10 · 1,465 observations

3KInstalls · 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
3.6.41
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2007-09-07 · 18 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. temosy
    10.2y ago

    This is cool plugin for me. But post page does not work normally due to this plugin. This plugin affect to functions of post page. [Affected functions] – Show setting – Contextual help – Editor toolbar I really appreciate If this issue has been fixed.

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  2. Jeff McNeill
    10.2y ago

    This is still the best meta tag editor and code insertion tool. The simplicity is what keeps it strong and useful. There are some problems now, especially with 4.5, but they can be fixed with a few small edits to the code. See: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-wp-45 I’ve released a version that has those changes over on Github and encourage people to contribute there as well as post any issues. I tried to take the original code with the small changes and resubmit as a renamed (forked) plugin to the wordpress repository, but they require more changes to the whole code structure before accepting it, and that will take more time (though this is the eventual goal). HeadSpace is dead, long live HeadSpace https://github.com/jeffmcneill/apex-headspace/releases

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  3. Anonymous
    11.8y ago

    I like this plugin “HeadSpace2 SEO”. It seems working OK on WP4.0 of my site but I hope the plugin will be updated.

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  4. mylastof
    12.3y ago

    Good and no Bug. Simple and small. Thanks

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  5. losrecambiosdecoches.com
    12.5y ago

    Nice plugin and easy to use. im using this one in one of my website. I recommend it!!!

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  6. televizor
    12.6y ago

    Thank you for your work!

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  7. Lumpdog
    13.3y ago

    Easy to use for even the computer illiterate.

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  8. Katrina
    13.4y ago

    So much better compared to All in One SEO. Love this plugin! 🙂

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 3.6.42 Fix drag and drop problem with WP 3.5 3.6.42
  2. Version 3.6.41 Fix problem with ‘plugins’ module causing post edit page to stop loading fully 3.6.41
  3. Version 3.6.40 Fix HS not appearing on post edit page 3.6.40
  4. Version 3.6.39 Update some old crufty code Remove mass editor 3.6.39
  5. Version 3.6.38 Updated to AIOSEO importer, thanks to Joan 3.6.38
  6. Version 3.6.37 Fix bug with site modules not saving 3.6.37

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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. 2026-01-28 4K+ → 3K+ down after 341 days in tier
  2. 2025-02-21 5K+ → 4K+ down after 280 days in tier
  3. 2024-05-17 6K+ → 5K+ down after 230 days in tier
  4. 2023-09-30 7K+ → 6K+ down after 141 days in tier
  5. 2023-05-12 8K+ → 7K+ down after 148 days in tier
  6. 2022-12-15 9K+ → 8K+ down

Competes with

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