Media Placeholders
by Weston Ruter · Uncategorized
Redirect requests to non-existent uploaded images to a placeholder service like placehold.it or placekitten.com. For use during development.
45 health vs 56 average across 12,189 Uncategorized 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1, 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 4160 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
56
now · peak 154
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 “60+”. 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-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-10 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-09 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-08 70+ → 60+ down after 10 days in tier
- 2026-05-29 60+ → 70+ up after 15 days in tier
- 2026-05-14 70+ → 60+ down after 233 days in tier
- 2025-09-23 80+ → 70+ down after 170 days in tier
- 2025-04-06 90+ → 80+ down after 136 days in tier
- 2024-11-21 100+ → 90+ down after 740 days in tier
Competes with
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