PlacePress
by Center for Public History + Digital Humanities · Uncategorized
An elegant mapping solution for public historians, urbanists, and other humanities researchers.
80 health vs 56 average across 12,078 Uncategorized plugins
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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
45
now · peak 162
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
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-18 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-17 30+ → 20+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2026-06-10 20+ → 30+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2026-05-29 30+ → 20+ down after 193 days in tier
- 2025-11-17 40+ → 30+ down after 22 days in tier
- 2025-10-26 30+ → 40+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2025-10-22 40+ → 30+ down after 10 days in tier
- 2025-10-12 30+ → 40+ up after 57 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Public Post Preview 100K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A -
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MapGeo – Interactive Geo Maps 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
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