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mg Quotes

by mgiulio · Uncategorized

Also makes 4 other plugins · 120+ installs across the portfolio →

Manage and publish your favorite quotes with WordPress

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 44/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

-14%

low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month

Biggest opportunity: “quotes” and “random quotes” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.8%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 5.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,785 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38, well behind 7.1.

Details

Version
1.1.5
Last updated
11.6y ago
Added
2014-05-07 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.1
Tested up to
4.0.38
Requires PHP
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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.

29 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 4245 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 2/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.0.38; the current branch is 7.1

Rating quality 54/100

4.0★ over 4 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.1★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 68/100

2 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 4245 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-14% low volume vs prior 30d
82 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 183 · peaks are release surges

1013 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

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.

1K3 Nov 2026

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

11.6y ago

latest release · v1.1.5 · 21 Mar 2015

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1.5 · 21 Mar 20151.1.3 · 5 Sep 2014

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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 3.9 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 16 May 2021

1003 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ irkmiller
    11.2y ago

    When removing/deleting this plug-in, you lose the “Read” capability for the admin role. You can no longer access your dashboard, wp-admin/index.php, wp-admin/profile.php, or wp-admin/update-core.php. User beware!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ Heliocles
    11.9y ago

    Displays random quote, all of which are published like posts.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ Dee Teal
    12.1y ago

    I needed a plugin that was easy to style, didn’t go overriding WordPress native functionality and was easy for the client to use. This totally fit the bill, and when I found a conflict with another plugin I was using the developer identifited it and sent a patch to the other plugin dev. Great stuff.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ Ishan Koul
    12.1y ago

    Hi, when i try to see the quotes of a particular category, it shows me a warning ” Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /wp-content/themes/paulblack/single.php on line 31″. Can you please help me here? The link to the page is dev.bitwaretechnologies.com/thoughtstranslated/quotes/dummy-quote-3/

    Read on wp.org ↗

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

3 of 8 pass · checked 3 Nov 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Manage and publish your favorite quotes with WordPress"
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you have"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 6 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 5,711 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 1 of 2 tags appear in the text; "random quotes" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2022-12-10 200+ → 100+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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mg Quotes: 100+ active installs, 4.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/mg-quotes

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