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Orbisius bbPress Enhancer

by Svetoslav Marinov · Uncategorized

Also makes 34 other plugins · 11.4K+ installs across the portfolio →

This plugin adds missing or not yet implemented functionality to bbPress.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 45/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

20+

≈27 estimated

Momentum

0%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “bbpress”, “orbisius” and “plugins” 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.

How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 58 average across 25,738 Uncategorized plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.4%

of downloads still active

At least 20 of 4.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,771 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
1.0.2
Last updated
13.3y ago
Added
2013-03-16 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
2.0.2
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP
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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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 4860 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 2/100

Tested up to WordPress 3.5.2; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 55/100

4.3★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 4860 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

0% vs prior 30d
330 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 74 · peaks are release surges

6031 Oct 2026

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

4.331 Oct 2026

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 year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

13.3y ago

latest release · v1.0.2 · 11 Jul 2013

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.2 · 11 Jul 20131.0.1 · 3 Apr 20131.0.0 · 16 Mar 2013

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 69% of the way through.

Install history since 30 Apr 2015

2031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Mark Burgess
    11.0y ago

    Downloaded to be able to change the author of a bbpress post. Doesn’t work.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ clickmac
    13.4y ago

    does what it says and gives me the opportunity to change author roles for replies 😀

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ clickmac
    13.4y ago

    does what it says and gives me the opportunity to change author roles for replies 😀

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    13.6y ago

    I was happy to find this plugin: I was looking for a way to edit the authorship of forum posts. I am archiving a long email discussion with friends, for a better legibility I decided to put it in a private forum in buddypress, using a bb-press forum. The plugin allows you to change the author of a TOPIC, but not of the REPLIES to that topic! I would be happy to have also a way to change the reply authors… to the author: keep up the good work!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ Shane Gowland
    13.6y ago

    Useful, but I would prefer each of these functions to be split into separate plugins.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

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

4 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "This plugin adds missing or not yet implemented functionality to bbPress."
  • ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions bbPress.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 1 list.
  • ! Enough to quote 897 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "plugins", "wp" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-10 30+ → 20+ down after 85 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-16 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-15 30+ → 20+ down after 15 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-31 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-30 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in tier
  6. 2026-03-27 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2026-03-25 30+ → 20+ down after 8 days in tier
  8. 2026-03-17 20+ → 30+ up after 1 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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Orbisius bbPress Enhancer: 20+ active installs, 4.3★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/orbisius-bbpress-enhancer

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