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Link Manager

by Andrew Nacin · Uncategorized

Enables the Link Manager that existed in WordPress until version 3.5.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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48 Health · D
Maintenance 3
Rating quality 85
Support 70

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-15%
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Directory rank

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

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 “20K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
20K–30K ≈24K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install trend · reconstructed from 1390 daily snapshots

Details

Version
0.1-beta
Last updated
8.6y ago
Added
2012-08-16
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
6.1.10
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-26 30K+ → 20K+ down after 2 days in band
  2. 2026-04-24 20K+ → 30K+ up after 48 days in band
  3. 2026-03-07 30K+ → 20K+ down after 322 days in band
  4. 2025-04-19 40K+ → 30K+ down after 117 days in band
  5. 2024-12-23 30K+ → 40K+ up after 341 days in band
  6. 2024-01-17 40K+ → 30K+ down

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Link Manager: 20K+ active installs, 4.5★ (33 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-14. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/link-manager