Hello Dalai (Lama)

by johneckman · Uncategorized

Based on a joke comment on WP Late Night. Copy of Hello Dolly where the lyrics are replaced with sayings from the Dalai Lama.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

How scoring works →

45 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 76/100

Support 70/100

45 health vs 66 average across 3,877 Uncategorized plugins

10+

Active installs

≈16 estimated

1.9K

Total downloads

since 2012

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

-39%

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38, 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.

18 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 3/100

Rating quality 52/100

Listing tuning 20/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4352 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

-39% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 55

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

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 · 1,383 observations

Ratings · 2 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0.2
Last updated: 11.9y ago
Added: 2012-07-13 · 14 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.0
Tested up to: 4.0.38
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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Hello Dalai (Lama): 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/hello-dalai