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MooTools

by Tribulant Software · Uncategorized

Safely adds the MooTools JavaScript framework to your WordPress generated pages.

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

45 health vs 59 average across 7,401 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 3.9.40, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4459 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

-55% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

53

now · peak 163

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

MooTools · #25756 Smartslider · #8430 WP Enqueue · #21015 RactiveJS · #36181

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 ≈27

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations

Details

Version
1.0.3.4
Last updated
12.2y ago
Added
2009-08-11 · 16 yrs on WP
Requires WP
2.6
Tested up to
3.9.40
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-01-03 30+ → 20+ down after 7 days in band
  2. 2025-12-27 20+ → 30+ up after 25 days in band
  3. 2025-12-02 30+ → 20+ down after 65 days in band
  4. 2025-09-28 20+ → 30+ up after 32 days in band
  5. 2025-08-27 30+ → 20+ down after 880 days in band
  6. 2023-03-31 40+ → 30+ down

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MooTools: 20+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/mootools