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Herodotus – On This Day

by Igrika · Booking & Events

Create an "On This Day" section on your WordPress site. Displays posts based on day and month — automatically, every year.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
83 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

83 health vs 67 average across 981 Booking & Events plugins

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.

88 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2026-04-28 · 126 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+131% vs prior 30d
2Downloads · Aug 31

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

97

now · peak 97

9730d downloads · Sep 1

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

Herodotus · #47931 you Calendar · #3429 Event Timeline · #6550 FT Calendar · #15746

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.

9.7Kper 1k installs · Sep 1

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

4mo ago

latest release · v1.0.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.0 · 4mo ago

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈17

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

Install history · since 2026-04-30 · 83 observations

10Installs · Sep 1

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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Details

Version
1.5.0
Last updated
14d ago
Added
2026-04-28
Requires WP
5.6
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
7.4

Recent reviews

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  1. kordi
    4mo ago

    Excellent plugin – nothing extra, just the perfect tool for a specific task

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Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 3 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Russian 81%
Spanish (Spain) 63%
German (Formal) 27%

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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Herodotus – On This Day: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/herodotus