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Mobile CSS

by Maxaud · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 610+ installs across the portfolio →

Allows you to define different CSS styles that get loaded for specific mobile devices.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,376 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4742 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+67% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

77

now · peak 90

8330d 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

Mobile CSS · #9039 you WP Add Custom CSS · #669 Add Admin CSS · #1881 TJ Custom CSS · #2466

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.

166per 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

13.0y ago

latest release · v1.2

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2 · 13.0y ago1.1 · 13.5y ago1.0 · 13.9y 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈570

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

Install history · since 2015-09-06 · 1,425 observations

500Installs · 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.

Details

Version
1.2
Last updated
13.0y ago
Added
2012-10-09 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.6.1
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. LeeBinder
    11.3y ago

    Doing 100% what it’s supposed to do in WP 4.1.4 + Responsive Theme. Just 1 little suggestion/ request: change the label in the sidebar from CSS to Mobile CSS, because I already have a CSS menu item in there, too, and it’s confusing that Mobile CSS is just (i my case also) called CSS, too. I bet almost everybody who’s editing CSS for mobile, is also editing it for desktop. Other than that, great. Maxaud has not updated the code in 2 years, but I guess there isn’t much to update because the detection script works as long as the standards don’t change?

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  2. con
    11.7y ago

    Much better, than writing all those media queries + the entries makes it easier to manage for not so savvy CSS people. Great stuff!

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  3. Chapita
    11.9y ago

    I did not succeed then manually searched for a plugin. Light, easy and it works!

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  4. Anonymous
    12.0y ago

    I am using this along with Firebug on my PC. I choose the section that doesn’t display correctly on the phone and then make the changes. I then add those into the css rule of this plugin. So easy it is crazy. Love this plugin

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  5. crezo
    12.1y ago

    Trying to resize one bit of text had been driving me mad for days. This is the most ridiculously quick, simple and easy to use plug in ever. literally less than two minutes and perfect scaling text on my adaptive site for mobiles. I *****g love you 😉 Seriously, this plugin is genius!! THANK YOU!

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  6. midsummermagic1111
    12.5y ago

    I didn’t have anything much complicated to do.. but it fixed some issues with my theme being viewed on the ipad easily. Thanks for this. 🙂

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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. 2025-12-06 600+ → 500+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2025-12-04 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-12-03 600+ → 500+ down after 287 days in tier
  4. 2025-02-19 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-02-18 400+ → 500+ up after 234 days in tier
  6. 2024-06-29 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  7. 2024-06-27 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
  8. 2024-06-24 500+ → 400+ down after 201 days in tier

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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Mobile CSS: 500+ active installs, 5.0★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-30. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/mobile-css