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Page Expiration Robot – Countdown Timer

by Bill Zimmerman · Uncategorized

The official #1 most intelligent, scarcity countdown timer plugin ever created for WordPress to expire posts AND pages on autopilot!

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 57 average across 9,551 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, 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.

44 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 5/100
Rating quality 83/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3544 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

-54% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

60

now · peak 164

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

Page Expiration Robo · #17051 Countdown, Coming So · #2086 Countdown Timer · #2118 Countdown Block · #3437

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

tracked estimate
90–100 ≈97

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations

Details

Version
3.2.1
Last updated
9.7y ago
Added
2011-06-03 · 15 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
4.4.34
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-26 100+ → 90+ down after 667 days in band
  2. 2024-08-28 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
  3. 2024-08-26 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in band
  4. 2024-08-24 200+ → 100+ down after 370 days in band
  5. 2023-08-20 300+ → 200+ down

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Page Expiration Robot – Countdown Timer: 90+ active installs, 4.2★ (100 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/page-expiration-robot