Native WP Cleaner
by Oleg Komarovskyi · Uncategorized
Disable native widgets, clean head tag from RSS, RSD, WLW Manifest links, disable XML-RPC, cleanup admin panel from columns, metaboxes, menu items.
45 health vs 57 average across 9,215 Uncategorized 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.28, 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 3324 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
24
now · peak 66
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 “70+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 80+ in roughly 246 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-14 60+ → 70+ up after 4 days in band
- 2026-03-10 70+ → 60+ down after 25 days in band
- 2026-02-13 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-12 70+ → 60+ down after 4 days in band
- 2026-02-08 60+ → 70+ up after 78 days in band
- 2025-11-22 70+ → 60+ down after 195 days in band
- 2025-05-11 80+ → 70+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-05-10 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- D Disable XML-RPC 200K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B
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Disable XML-RPC-API 100K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
Remove & Disable XML-RPC Pingback 8K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D -
Stop XML-RPC Attacks 6K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A -
Remove XML-RPC Methods 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
Remove WordPress Overhead 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag C
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