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MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards

by Mark O'Donnell · Uncategorized

Also makes 5 other plugins · 500+ installs across the portfolio →

Manages multiple sports team schedules and scoreboards. Displays schedule tables, schedule sliders, scoreboards, and countdown timers.

Removed from WordPress.org

wp.org closed this plugin on 2026-09-21 — at the author’s request. It's no longer installable or updated. If you're running it, plan a replacement: closures are often security-related and WordPress won't warn you.

⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews

Health

C 56/100

Stale · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

+3%

low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month

Biggest opportunity: “games”, “schedule” and “scoreboards” 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 →
56 Health · C
Maintenance 26/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.7%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 14.1K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with 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.

Details

Version
1.5.1
Last updated
2.0y ago
Added
2014-12-08 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
5.3
Tested up to
6.6.7
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.

61 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 36/100

Updated 714 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 60/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.6.7; the current branch is 7.1

Rating quality 55/100

5.0★ over 4 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.2★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 714 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 · 1,442 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+3% low volume vs prior 30d
715 Sep 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 262 · peaks are release surges

6615 Sep 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.

66015 Sep 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

2.0y ago

latest release · v1.5.1 · 19 Nov 2024

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.5.1 · 19 Nov 20241.4.1 · 13 Mar 20241.4 · 19 Sep 20151.3 · 13 Mar 20151.2 · 30 Dec 20141.1 · 14 Dec 20141.0 · 8 Dec 2014

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 75% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.5 75%
v1.4 25%

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 3.3 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 18 Sep 2015

10015 Sep 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ creativewebdesigns03
    10.2y ago

    Thanks to Mark for all this great work. Very flexible and support responsiveness is outstanding.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ mallard66
    10.8y ago

    I’ve used this plugin, and it’s predecessor, since first planning the sports page I’m maintaining. From day one I’ve gotten excellent support from Mark (and a few enhancements thrown in as well). It’s not too complex to set up, easy to style and entering data is fairly quick. There’s always things that could be improved – I’d love a quick-edit capability to just enter a game result directly in the games overview and I’d like to be able to re-shuffle and hide fields I don’t use in the backend, but these are really minor things compared to the functionality already there. 5* and keep up the good work, Mark!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ djfritos
    10.9y ago

    Hello All, I am a 52 years old audio-video technician and webmaster, website programer for a private french high school since 1988. So I’ve been working with students between 12 and 17 years old for the last 29 years of my life, and still loving it. This is, our school (and me) find the MSTW sports plugins for wordpress. At first, we didnt know what to expect as result and mostly, how to use it and how much time we would put into the plugin for our school since we have for this year, 14 differents teams that represent our school in competition in 8 differents sports. And now, I’m really proud and happy to have found this plugins. It is more than we exprected. It is complete, have more possibility than we will need or use for now and it mostly, it is easy to use after creating your first team and schedule. Of course, it is not perfect, but I’m sure the team behing Mark is working hard to get plugin at another level. So for me I just want to say Thank you to Mark and his team for the great creation of MSTW. I will end with some points or amelioration I would love to see in next version: 1- The ticker scoreboard is very important for us; I sure would love the option to select wich sports beside (like a little scrolling sports choice list) 2- To have the option to set and edit ourself width of tables for some scorebaord or schedules, some are to tight between tables cells. Center, spaces… 3- In team roasters list, to have the option to get to columns for team beside having only one long list to scroll down. Like our athletism team list. Near 40 names and photos. Guys thanks a lots and mostly to Mark who helped me a lot with patience and speed.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ Mark O'Donnell
    11.8y ago

    If you liked Game Schedules, you will LOVE this upgrade. -Mark

    Read on wp.org ↗

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 33 languages, 1 at 90% or more

German 97%
Romanian 8%
Japanese 6%
Punjabi 6%
Dutch (Formal) 5%
English (Australia) 5%
English (New Zealand) 5%
English (UK) 5%
Dutch 4%
French (France) 4%
Italian 4%
Spanish (Spain) 4%
Finnish 3%
Greek 3%
English (Canada) 2%
Marathi 2%
Russian 2%
Albanian 1%
Azerbaijani 1%
Basque 1%
Catalan 1%
Croatian 1%
Esperanto 1%
French (Canada) 1%

Plus 9 more locales with partial translations.

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

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

Not checked yet. The readme could not be read from WordPress.org on this visit.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-07-29 200+ → 100+ down after 298 days in tier
  2. 2022-10-04 300+ → 200+ down after 781 days in tier
  3. 2020-08-14 400+ → 300+ 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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MSTW Schedules & Scoreboards: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/mstw-schedules-scoreboards

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