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Menubar Color Changer

by Ole-Kenneth · Uncategorized

Menubar Color Changer allows you to change the color of the black menubar in Twenty Eleven.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 62 average across 5,317 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4979 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-74% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

12

now · peak 62

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

Menubar Color Change · #26484 Central Color Palett · #1507 HookMeUp for WooComm · #1886 Options for Twenty S · #2358

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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈28

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,357 observations

Details

Version
1.0.3
Last updated
13.6y ago
Added
2012-08-31 · 13 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.4
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-09-28 30+ → 20+ down after 10 days in band
  2. 2025-09-18 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
  3. 2025-09-17 30+ → 20+ down after 15 days in band
  4. 2025-09-02 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
  5. 2025-09-01 30+ → 20+ down after 12 days in band
  6. 2025-08-20 20+ → 30+ up after 315 days in band
  7. 2024-10-09 30+ → 20+ down after 408 days in band
  8. 2023-08-28 40+ → 30+ down after 17 days in band

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Menubar Color Changer: 20+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/menubar-color-changer