Plain Social Sharing Buttons
by cleanCode · Social
Simple and lightweight social sharing buttons for your wordpress site
41 health vs 55 average across 1,033 Social 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.22, 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 2695 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
21
now · peak 49
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
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “—”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
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
No tier crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare 20K+ installs · 3.3★ · 3 shared tags C -
Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag B -
Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Scriptless Social Sharing 10K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag B -
Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar 4K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag D -
Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin 1K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
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