Lang Attribute for the Block Editor

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Add lang attribute to the text formatting toolbar in the block editor.

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⚠ Few reviews

Health

B 84/100

Few reviews

Active installs

90+

≈99 estimated

Momentum

-33%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Add “attribute” and “text formatting” to your wp.org tags. You rank #11 and #12 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.

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84 Health · B

Maintenance 100/100

Rating quality 76/100

Support 70/100

84 health vs 71 average across 2,522 Blocks plugins

90+

Active installs

≈99 estimated

12.8K

Total downloads

since 2022 · 0.7% still active

4.1/5

Rating

4.7 on wp.org · 3 reviews

-33%

503

Downloads · 30d

category median +16%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.7%

of downloads still active

At least 90 of 12.8K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Blocks plugin keeps 2.1%, across 1,577 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Blocks plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.

Ratings · 3 reviews

Details

Version: 0.3
Last updated: 2mo ago
Added: 2022-11-23 · 3 yrs old
Requires WP: 5.9
Tested up to: 7.1.4
Requires PHP: 7.0

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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.

87 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Most to gain: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100

Updated 64 days ago

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer

Rating quality 54/100

4.7★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

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

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Search visibility

How it's tracked →

Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

Momentum

Losing ground

-0.1

Velocity

places per keyword, 27d

Breadth

of keywords climbing, 27d

0.0

Acceleration

recent half vs earlier

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

Keyword	wp.org	On merit	wp.org move, 90 days
lang attribute	#1	#2	0
lang your tag	#1	#4	0
attribute	#11	#19	down 2
text formatting	#12	#20	up 2
language attribute	#10	#21	0
text attribute	#16	#19	0
block editor removal	#23	#23	down 1
accessibility your tag	Not in the top 24
block editor your tag	Not in the top 24
language your tag	Not in the top 24

15 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 7 listed. 8 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

What to do about it

Add “attribute” and “text formatting” to your wp.org tags. You rank #11 and #12 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.

Daily downloads

Since 24 Nov 2022 · 1,437 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-33% vs prior 30d

1330 Oct 2026

2001000

1330 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 655 · peaks are release surges

50331 Oct 2026

8004000

50331 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #16,800 to #17,400, alongside the other plugins at 90+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.731 Oct 2026

52.50

4.731 Oct 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

8431 Oct 2026

907560

8431 Oct 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

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.

releases in the last 12 months

11mo ago

latest release · v0.3 · 27 Nov 2025

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.3 · 27 Nov 20250.2.2 · 24 Nov 20220.2.1 · 24 Nov 20220.2 · 24 Nov 20220.1 · 23 Nov 2022

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “90+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

90–100 ≈99

Crossed into this band 20 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 100.

Install history since 23 Nov 2022

9031 Oct 2026

100500<10 installs

9031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

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★★★★★ Yaser Shahi
2.7y ago

As a user of WordPress with a Persian background, I am genuinely grateful to the developers for offering such a valuable solution.
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★★★★★ ovau
3.7y ago

Thanks for this little Plugin! Seems it just adds a <span>-tag to the block. This can also be done with the html-mode of the block-editor. But so it might be a little bit easier to maintain.
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★★★★★ Anne-Mieke Bovelett
3.8y ago

Thank you, thank you, thank you!, for creating and sharing this plugin. As small as this may seem to the less knowledgable, this plugin provides a massive win for accessibility! Update Tuesday, Nov. 21: this plugin still works fine with WordPress 6.4.x! An yes, of course, you can achieve the in the HTML editor manually, but not all users are comfortable doing that. This is a great solution! This topic was modified 2 years, 8 months ago by Anne-Mieke Bovelett. Reason: The plugin is marked as "not tested with your WordPress version". Well, I tested it, and it works fine
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.1.1

✓ 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 11 languages, 9 at 90% or more

Chinese (Taiwan) 100%

Dutch 100%

French (France) 100%

Italian 100%

Persian 100%

Polish 100%

Portuguese (Portugal) 100%

Spanish (Chile) 100%

Spanish (Spain) 100%

Norwegian (Bokmål) 72%

German 27%

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

4 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

✓ Says what it does "Add lang attribute to the text formatting toolbar in the block editor."
! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
✓ Names what it works with Mentions Block editor.
! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
✓ Enough to quote 2,089 characters of description.
✓ Tags match the text All 4 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

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

2026-10-11 100+ → 90+ down after 224 days in tier
2026-03-01 90+ → 100+ up after 42 days in tier
2026-01-18 100+ → 90+ down after 8 days in tier
2026-01-10 90+ → 100+ up after 141 days in tier
2025-08-22 80+ → 90+ up after 70 days in tier
2025-06-13 90+ → 80+ down after 69 days in tier
2025-04-05 100+ → 90+ down after 111 days in tier
2024-12-15 90+ → 100+ up after 7 days in tier

Competes with

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Lang Attribute for the Block Editor: 90+ active installs, 4.7★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/lang-attribute

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