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oEmbed for Comments

by r-a-y · Uncategorized

Enable oEmbed support for comments. Requires WP 2.9+.

⚠ 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 11,551 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 16+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2, 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 1/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5966 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

-39% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

23

now · peak 70

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

oEmbed for Comments · #21236 Embed PDF Viewer · #1253 Disable Embeds · #1755 AnyComment · #3075

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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈46

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,375 observations

Details

Version
0.6
Last updated
16.3y ago
Added
2010-03-17 · 16 yrs on WP
Requires WP
2.9
Tested up to
2.9.2
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-12 50+ → 40+ down after 45 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-28 40+ → 50+ up after 70 days in tier
  3. 2026-01-17 50+ → 40+ down after 389 days in tier
  4. 2024-12-24 60+ → 50+ down after 31 days in tier
  5. 2024-11-23 50+ → 60+ up after 56 days in tier
  6. 2024-09-28 60+ → 50+ down after 4 days in tier
  7. 2024-09-24 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-09-23 60+ → 50+ down after 219 days in tier

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oEmbed for Comments: 40+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/oembed-for-comments