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Hide WordPress Bar

by Digo Ribeiro · Admin & Utilities

Plugin to hide and display the admin bar in an easy way

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

41 health vs 53 average across 3,239 Admin & Utilities 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5, 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.

33 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3346 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

-61% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

46

now · peak 155

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

Hide WordPress Bar · #53744 Hide Admin Bar Based · #1156 Hide Admin Bar · #1178 Hide Admin Bar from · #1760

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “—”. The real number sits in this band.

modeled estimate
0–0 ≈0

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
9.2y ago
Added
2017-05-19 · 9 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.0.5
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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