Menu Item Types
by Maxime Pertici · Admin & Utilities
Menu Item Types makes it easy to add and create custom menu item types to your navigation menus.
84 health vs 55 average across 1,946 Admin & Utilities plugins
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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
250
now · peak 398
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 200+ in roughly 330 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-22 90+ → 100+ up after 8 days in band
- 2026-05-14 100+ → 90+ down after 4 days in band
- 2026-05-10 90+ → 100+ up after 5 days in band
- 2026-05-05 100+ → 90+ down after 3 days in band
- 2026-05-02 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-01 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-04-29 90+ → 100+ up after 11 days in band
- 2026-04-18 80+ → 90+ up 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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Simple Custom CSS Plugin 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag C
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