No noopener noreferrer – Don’t add rel="noopener noreferrer"
by matthewtatumwordpress · Uncategorized
Prevent Wordpress from adding noreferrer and noopener to external links.
44 health vs 61 average across 5,505 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 4.7.33, 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 3364 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
59
now · peak 169
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 “300+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-02-10 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-02-08 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-02-07 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-02-05 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-02-04 400+ → 300+ down after 462 days in band
- 2023-10-31 500+ → 400+ down after 214 days in band
- 2023-03-31 600+ → 500+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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External Links – nofollow, noopener & new window 90K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
Remove noreferrer 5K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag D
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