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Orphan Word

by Olar Marius · Uncategorized

This plugin will handle the orphan words from: post/page title, widget title, widget text and comment text.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 64 average across 4,347 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2887 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

-47% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

23

now · peak 62

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

Orphan Word · #20389 Orphans · #790 Use Any Font · #240 Fonts Plugin · #250

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

tracked estimate
50–60 ≈58

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
7.9y ago
Added
2015-06-26 · 11 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
4.9.29
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-10-02 40+ → 50+ up after 12 days in band
  2. 2025-09-20 50+ → 40+ down after 2 days in band
  3. 2025-09-18 40+ → 50+ up after 136 days in band
  4. 2025-05-05 50+ → 40+ down after 13 days in band
  5. 2025-04-22 40+ → 50+ up after 45 days in band
  6. 2025-03-08 50+ → 40+ down after 24 days in band
  7. 2025-02-12 40+ → 50+ up after 15 days in band
  8. 2025-01-28 50+ → 40+ down after 2 days in band

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