Global Admin Search
by George Stephanis · Uncategorized
This is a proposal for inclusion in Core in 3.8
45 health vs 56 average across 12,408 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, 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 4646 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
42
now · peak 132
Directory rank
wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-11-30 20+ → 10+ down after 104 days in tier
- 2024-08-18 10+ → 20+ up after 62 days in tier
- 2024-06-17 20+ → 10+ down after 532 days in tier
- 2023-01-02 30+ → 20+ down after 21 days in tier
- 2022-12-12 20+ → 30+ up after 10 days in tier
- 2022-12-02 30+ → 20+ down
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/omnisearch" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Global Admin Search — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Global Admin Search: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/omnisearch