Live Theme Preview
by Mike Martel · Admin & Utilities
Live Theme Preview allows users to preview themes on their own website before customizing or activating them.
45 health vs 53 average across 2,887 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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 4895 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
22
now · peak 57
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,372 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-04-24 20+ → 10+ down after 99 days in tier
- 2025-01-15 10+ → 20+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2025-01-06 20+ → 10+ down after 32 days in tier
- 2024-12-05 10+ → 20+ up after 21 days in tier
- 2024-11-14 20+ → 10+ down after 305 days in tier
- 2024-01-14 30+ → 20+ down after 357 days in tier
- 2023-01-22 40+ → 30+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- T Theme Preview 200+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
- C Css Live Reload 60+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
- C Color Scheme every Theme 50+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags D
- M MW WP Form 200K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag A
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Customizer Export/Import 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Public Post Preview 100K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/live-theme-preview" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Live Theme Preview — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Live Theme Preview: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/live-theme-preview