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Mu Manager – Manage mu-plugins like standard plugins

by Jose Mortellaro · Uncategorized

Also makes 47 other plugins · 25.7K+ installs across the portfolio →

It lets you disable, enable, and delete mu-plugins as you do with the standard plugins.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
86 Health · A
Maintenance 99/100
Rating quality 83/100
Support 70/100

86 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

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.

83 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 60/100
Listing tuning 68/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+41% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

223

now · peak 997

22330d 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

Mu Manager · #7211 you Admin CSS MU · #1633 BEA · #11539 Governance Guardrail · #50207

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.

248per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v0.0.3

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.0.3 · 3mo ago0.0.2 · 2.0y ago0.0.1 · 2.1y 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.

v0.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “900+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
900–1K ≈960

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

At the current install trend, crossing 1K+ in roughly 89 days.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,418 observations

900Installs · 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
0.0.3
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2022-05-03 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
5.6

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 3 languages, 3 at 90% or more

German 100%
German (Formal) 100%
Italian 100%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-11 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-10 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-08-09 800+ → 900+ up after 82 days in tier
  4. 2026-05-19 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-05-18 800+ → 700+ down after 6 days in tier
  6. 2026-05-12 700+ → 800+ up after 187 days in tier
  7. 2025-11-06 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2025-11-05 700+ → 600+ down after 2 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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