Mu Manager – Manage mu-plugins like standard plugins
by Jose Mortellaro · Uncategorized
Also makes 57 other plugins · 25.8K+ installs across the portfolio →
It lets you disable, enable, delete, download, and edit mu-plugins as you do with the standard plugins.
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.
Health
A 87/100
Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈1K estimated
Momentum
+100%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “deactivate” and “like” to your wp.org tags. You rank #24 and #24 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 2 listed these are the slots worth spending.
87 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →9.5%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 10.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,764 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.
This plugin shipped 2 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 15 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 7 reviews, smoothed to 4.21★ and held back under 25 reviews
2 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
40
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
+0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
18%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
+0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| must use your tag | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| mu plugins | #1 | #4 | 0 |
| mu plugin your tag | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| wordpress mu | #1 | #3 | 0 |
| standard | #3 | #9 | up 1 |
| must | #4 | #12 | — |
| like | #24 | #23 | 0 |
| must use plugins | #14 | #23 | up 1 |
| deactivate | #24 | #21 | 0 |
13 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 9 listed. 4 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Add “deactivate” and “like” to your wp.org tags. You rank #24 and #24 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 2 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.3K · peaks are release surges
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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
2
releases in the last 12 months
15d ago
latest release · v0.0.6 · 16 Oct 2026
4
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 9 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 1K.
At the current install trend, crossing 2K+ in roughly 872 days.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 3 languages, 0 at 90% or more
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
5 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "It lets you disable, enable, delete, download, and edit mu-plugins as you do with the standard plugins."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("if you need", "if you have").
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 6 headings and 5 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,034 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 1 of 2 tags appear in the text; "must use" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-22 900+ → 1K+ up after 72 days in tier
- 2026-08-11 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-08-10 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-08-09 800+ → 900+ up after 82 days in tier
- 2026-05-19 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-18 800+ → 700+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2026-05-12 700+ → 800+ up after 187 days in tier
- 2025-11-06 600+ → 700+ up after 1 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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