Muut – Commenting and Forums Re-Imagined
by Paul · Social
Muut represents a complete re-imagination of what internet discussion forums and commenting should be. It’s a modern, fast, highly scalable discussion …
44 health vs 58 average across 556 Social plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 4.8.0, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3910 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
28
now · peak 88
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
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 “50+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-01-15 60+ → 50+ down after 89 days in band
- 2025-10-18 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-10-17 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-10-16 70+ → 60+ down after 23 days in band
- 2025-09-23 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-09-22 70+ → 60+ down after 11 days in band
- 2025-09-11 60+ → 70+ up after 6 days in band
- 2025-09-05 70+ → 60+ down after 24 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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WP Discourse 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A - P Post Comments as bbPress Topics 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A
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