Allows internal CSS styling to be included in the content of the page.
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Health
D 54/100
Stale · Few reviews
Active installs
20+
≈22 estimated
Momentum
+131%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “blocks”, “css” and “shortcodes” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
54 health vs 71 average across 2,524 Blocks plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.3%
of downloads still active
At least 20 of 6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Blocks plugin keeps 2.1%, across 1,579 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Blocks plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Details
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.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 717 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.7.11; the current branch is 6.8
4.5★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 717 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
40
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
+0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 27d
20%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 27d
+0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| geshi your tag | #3 | #3 | 0 |
| oik | #8 | #5 | 0 |
| blocks your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| css your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| shortcodes your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
5 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 3 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “blocks”, “css” and “shortcodes” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 157 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #25,300 to #28,300, alongside the other plugins at 20+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
2.0y ago
latest release · v2.3.1 · 14 Nov 2024
19
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 20.
At the current install trend, crossing 30+ in roughly 450 days.
Install history since 7 Sep 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ bobbingwide13.1y ago
As the author of this plugin I’m obviously biased. I realise that giving the user the capability of defining their own CSS could be just as dangerous as giving them access to TinyMCE. But if it saves the author time then it can also save them money. I used to frown upon the use of internal CSS, but now I’m a big fan. Using internal CSS can help reduce the size of the CSS file delivered to the browser. It’s also less likely to adversely affect the formatting of other pages. Note: internal CSS, also known as embedded CSS, is the stuff that is put in the style tags. This is different from inline CSS – which is defined with the style tag. I did have one niggle, which was that I had to fiddle with filters to handle strange behaviour with wpautop() processing. But I’m not the first person to have suffered this and won’t be the last. The problem was that there was a chance that activating this plugin would break the formatting of content that relied on certain side effects of the default filters run for ‘the_content’. In v0.8.0 the autop processing has been improved. The
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ herbmiller13.1y ago
The oik-css plugin is great for creating custom CSS just where it’s needed. It’s especially useful when you want to apply some styling to a specific field on a specific page. I often combine it with oik shortcodes to override default behaviour. The [bw_geshi] shortcode is also very useful for documenting CSS, PHP, HTML and JavaScript/jQuery. Note: I also use the oik custom CSS AND/OR Jetpack’s Edit CSS option.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
5 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Allows internal CSS styling to be included in the content of the page."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 5 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 5 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("for designers", "if you want").
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 4 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 956 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "blocks", "shortcodes" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-08-31 10+ → 20+ up after 80 days in tier
- 2026-06-12 20+ → 10+ down after 13 days in tier
- 2026-05-30 10+ → 20+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2026-05-25 20+ → 10+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2026-05-19 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-18 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-17 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-16 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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oik 2K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
CP Blocks 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
TailPress – Tailwind for WordPress 400+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D -
WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers + Custom Code Snippets – WordPress Code Manager 3M+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Spectra Legacy – Gutenberg Blocks 1M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Kadence Blocks — Page Builder Toolkit for Gutenberg Editor 600K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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