Lao Fonts
by frankkung · Uncategorized
Also makes 1 other plugin · 240+ installs across the portfolio →
Put makeup on Lao Language. Make it Beautiful.
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Health
D 46/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
200+
≈260 estimated
Momentum
+23%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 3/100. Last updated 2076 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
46 health vs 58 average across 25,737 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.1%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 9.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,770 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.23.
Details
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2076 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.6.23; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.15★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2076 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →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.
31
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 16d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 16d
-0.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| phetsarath your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| phetsarath for wordpress your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| phetsarath ot your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| phetsarath wp your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| makeup | #24 | #16 | 0 |
| ພາສາລາວ your tag | Not checked yet | ||
6 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 5 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Your five tags are all earning their place. Each gets you onto page 1 of its own search, so none is worth giving up. “makeup” (#24 untagged) would be the next worth testing if a slot frees up.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 116 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ 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.
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
5.7y ago
latest release · v2.3.1 · 23 Feb 2021
15
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 9 months ago; the previous band took 21 months to cross, which places it about 55% of the way through.
Install history since 31 Oct 2020
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Defago5.9y ago
The plugin will override any English font prior the plugin installation so a little custom CSS is very useful to get the plugin to work well.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ anousone020220206.5y ago
Thank you so much to share the lao font for the general use in wordpress,
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ PsM10.2y ago
ຄັກຫຼາຍ
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.6.2
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
2 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Put makeup on Lao Language. Make it Beautiful."
- ! 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 Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 1 list.
- ! Enough to quote 286 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 5 tags appear in the text ("ພາສາລາວ", "phetsarath", "phetsarath for wordpress", "phetsarath ot", "phetsarath wp" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-22 300+ → 200+ down after 627 days in tier
- 2024-05-05 400+ → 300+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2024-04-21 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-04-19 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-04-18 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-04-16 400+ → 300+ down after 12 days in tier
- 2024-04-04 300+ → 400+ up after 20 days in tier
- 2024-03-15 400+ → 300+ down after 6 days in tier
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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