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mPress Banners

by Micah Wood · Media

Also makes 4 other plugins · 240+ installs across the portfolio →

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Easily create slide-up or slide-down banners on your site with a simple shortcode.

Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 43/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

40+

≈42 estimated

Momentum

+2%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “banner ad”, “banners” and “carousel” 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.

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How scoring works →
43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 62 average across 3,279 Media plugins

40+

Active installs

≈42 estimated

13.2K

Total downloads

since 2013 · 0.3% still active

3.8/5

Rating

3.3 on wp.org · 3 reviews

+2%

69

Downloads · 30d

category median +10%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.3%

of downloads still active

At least 40 of 13.2K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,317 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Media 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 3 reviews

Read on wp.org ↗
5★
1 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
10.4y ago
Added
2013-01-31 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.2
Tested up to
4.5.33
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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3800 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 6/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.5.33; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 53/100

3.3★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.05★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3800 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 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+2% vs prior 30d
130 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 79 · peaks are release surges

6931 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #21,400 to #22,800, alongside the other plugins at 40+ 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 21 Oct 2026.

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.331 Oct 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

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

10.4y ago

latest release · v1.0 · 5 Jun 2016

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0 · 5 Jun 20160.1 · 31 Jan 2013

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈42

Crossed into this band 3 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 40.

Install history since 10 Jul 2017

4031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Vaxfiend
    13.5y ago

    Easy to set up, even for a noob like me. I would like a few more options – but it’s a simple, clean, effective banner plug-in.

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  2. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    13.7y ago

    Everything about this plugin is great, except the part that really matters. I put the banner in my sidebar, it rotated and then disappeared. Same happens with single or multiple banners.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ IbneZia
    13.7y ago

    I tested it reccently and it is working all good. The only weak point is that it has no wediget.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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

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.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

6 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026

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

  • ✓ Says what it does "Easily create slide-up or slide-down banners on your site with a simple shortcode."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 3 headings and 2 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,200 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "carousel", "slider" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-17 30+ → 40+ up after 10 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-07 40+ → 30+ down after 83 days in tier
  3. 2026-05-16 50+ → 40+ down after 64 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-13 40+ → 50+ up after 21 days in tier
  5. 2026-02-20 50+ → 40+ down after 10 days in tier
  6. 2026-02-10 60+ → 50+ down after 7 days in tier
  7. 2026-02-03 50+ → 60+ up after 5 days in tier
  8. 2026-01-29 60+ → 50+ down after 199 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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mPress Banners: 40+ active installs, 3.3★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/mpress-banners

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