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Notice Boxes with Shortcodes

by ayushag96 · Uncategorized

This plugin allows you to make notice boxes (styled content boxes of different colors) to display different messages via shortcodes.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 12,616 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4682 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-52% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

21

now · peak 130

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

Notice Boxes with Sh · #18278 Add Anchor Links · #6332 Headingo · #16700 Copy Link to Heading · #23561

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.

tracked estimate
70–80 ≈76

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations

Details

Version
3.4
Last updated
12.8y ago
Added
2013-08-29 · 12 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.6.1
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-20 80+ → 70+ down after 44 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-06 70+ → 80+ up after 8 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-29 80+ → 70+ down after 8 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-21 70+ → 80+ up after 20 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-01 80+ → 70+ down after 107 days in tier
  6. 2025-11-14 90+ → 80+ down after 7 days in tier
  7. 2025-11-07 80+ → 90+ up after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-11-05 90+ → 80+ down after 32 days in tier

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Notice Boxes with Shortcodes: 70+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/notice-boxes-with-shortcodes