Menu Section Titles
by Zach Wills · Admin & Utilities
Add the ability to create menu items that aren't a link.
46 health vs 53 average across 2,808 Admin & Utilities 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 3.9.40, 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 4376 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
19
now · peak 71
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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,364 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-12-04 50+ → 40+ down after 13 days in tier
- 2025-11-21 40+ → 50+ up after 15 days in tier
- 2025-11-06 50+ → 40+ down after 409 days in tier
- 2024-09-23 60+ → 50+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2024-09-21 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-09-20 60+ → 50+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2024-09-16 50+ → 60+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-09-14 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Menu Image, Icons made easy 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B -
User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility 80K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Nav Menu Roles 70K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A - N Nav Menu Images 6K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
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LuckyWP ACF Menu Field 5K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B - A Add Descendants As Submenu Items 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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