Mention comment's Authors by Wabeo
by Willy Bahuaud · Social
When adding a comment, your users can directly mentioning the author of another comment, like facebook or twitter do,using the "@" symbol.
47 health vs 57 average across 670 Social 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, 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 3700 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
21
now · peak 92
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 “80+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-01-28 90+ → 80+ down after 8 days in band
- 2026-01-20 80+ → 90+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-01-18 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-01-17 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-01-16 90+ → 80+ down after 110 days in band
- 2025-09-28 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-09-26 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-09-25 100+ → 90+ down after 1000 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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Nextend Social Login and Register 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Social Media Widget 30K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D -
Social comments by WpDevArt 8K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B -
Seed Social 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C -
Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar 4K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags D -
Open Graphite 3K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C
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