MANTIS Ad Network
by Paris Holley · Uncategorized
Easily serve advertisements from the MANTIS Ad Network on your website.
42 health vs 65 average across 4,199 Uncategorized plugins
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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.10.
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 1264 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
26
now · peak 250
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
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-04-14 200+ → 100+ down after 62 days in band
- 2025-02-11 100+ → 200+ up after 74 days in band
- 2024-11-29 200+ → 100+ down after 392 days in band
- 2023-11-03 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-11-02 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
- 2023-10-31 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-10-30 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in band
- 2023-10-26 300+ → 200+ 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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Banner Upload 500+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D -
Google for WooCommerce 800K+ installs · 2.7★ · 1 shared tag B -
Ad Inserter – Ad Manager & AdSense Ads 300K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Head, Footer and Post Injections 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
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