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Menu Cache

by Ryan Hellyer · Performance

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Caches WordPress navigation menus.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 68 average across 1,076 Performance plugins

50+

Active installs

≈57 estimated

73.8K

Total downloads

since 2015

4.12★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 3 reviews

+13%

170

Downloads · 30d

category median +15%

Removal-risk signals

51/100

Maintenance 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.
  • No tested-up-to version. The listing declares no "Tested up to" version.

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.

44 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3925 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+13% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

170

now · peak 63.9K

17030d downloads · Aug 26

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

Menu Cache · #19745 you Menu Duplicator · #1705 Quick remove menu it · #4187 WP Widget in Navigat · #4214

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

3.4Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

10.8y ago

latest release · v1.0.1

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.1 · 10.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “50+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
50–60 ≈57

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-12-03 · 1,387 observations

50Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 3 reviews

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5★
3 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.1
Last updated
10.8y ago
Added
2015-01-05 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
4.1
Tested up to
—
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ General Seed
    10.5y ago

    Efective and works fine, please keep update when need it, now works extra fine, Thanks. Five starts

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  2. ★★★★★ ShaOne
    11.0y ago

    Just trying out in staging (had previously had another menu cache plugin in testing which did not deal with menu states), and so far this one appears to be doing all we need it to. Great work!

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  3. ★★★★★ Ryan Hellyer
    11.7y ago

    This is my plugin. I made this as I’ve needed to cache menus on many projects in the past, but never been able to do it whilst keeping the page hierarchy classes intact. This plugin thankfully works around that problem 🙂 It’s not suitable for all websites, but the ones it is useful for, I use it on extensively.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-31 60+ → 50+ down after 107 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-16 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-05-15 60+ → 50+ down after 23 days in tier
  4. 2026-04-22 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-04-21 60+ → 50+ down after 56 days in tier
  6. 2026-02-24 50+ → 60+ up after 20 days in tier
  7. 2026-02-04 60+ → 50+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2026-02-02 50+ → 60+ up after 6 days in tier

Competes with

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