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Move Site Icon To Settings

by gregreindel · Uncategorized

Adds the site icon option to the general settings page

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 57 average across 9,745 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, 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.

30 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 5/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3871 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

-58% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

48

now · peak 173

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

Move Site Icon To Se · #21709 Customizer Export/Im · #300 Custom Login Page Cu · #490 Customizer Search · #793

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.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈47

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
10.6y ago
Added
2015-11-16 · 10 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.3
Tested up to
4.4.34
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-16 50+ → 40+ down after 112 days in band
  2. 2026-01-24 60+ → 50+ down after 317 days in band
  3. 2025-03-13 70+ → 60+ down after 93 days in band
  4. 2024-12-10 80+ → 70+ down after 67 days in band
  5. 2024-10-04 90+ → 80+ down after 18 days in band
  6. 2024-09-16 80+ → 90+ up after 7 days in band
  7. 2024-09-09 90+ → 80+ down after 98 days in band
  8. 2024-06-03 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in band

Competes with

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Move Site Icon To Settings: 40+ active installs, 5.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/move-site-icon-to-settings