Laughing Squid Web Hosting News & Status WordPress Dashboard Widget
by Shelby DeNike · Admin & Utilities
The Laughing Squid Web Hosting News & Status WordPress Dashboard Widget provides status information within your dashboard from Laughing Squid Web …
41 health vs 58 average across 1,282 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3509 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
137
now · peak 193
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
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-06-02 40+ → 30+ down after 127 days in band
- 2025-01-26 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in band
- 2025-01-23 40+ → 30+ down after 418 days in band
- 2023-12-02 50+ → 40+ down after 10 days in band
- 2023-11-22 40+ → 50+ up after 116 days in band
- 2023-07-29 50+ → 40+ down after 57 days in band
- 2023-06-02 40+ → 50+ up after 41 days in band
- 2023-04-22 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Announce from the Dashboard 7K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
Dashboard Widgets Suite 4K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Dashboard Columns 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B -
Widgets for Google Reviews 900K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
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