play-button
by jazzigor · Uncategorized
"play-button" lets you place one or more simple mp3 play buttons to your posts, pages or widget contents.
41 health vs 58 average across 7,514 Uncategorized 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 16+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8.2, 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 6204 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
47
now · peak 143
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,383 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-10-28 20+ → 10+ down after 35 days in band
- 2025-09-23 10+ → 20+ up after 14 days in band
- 2025-09-09 20+ → 10+ down after 361 days in band
- 2024-09-13 30+ → 20+ down after 411 days in band
- 2023-07-30 40+ → 30+ down after 140 days in band
- 2023-03-12 50+ → 40+ down after 7 days in band
- 2023-03-05 40+ → 50+ up after 8 days in band
- 2023-02-25 50+ → 40+ down after 7 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Easy Video Player 20K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A - J Jetpack Easy Playlists 30+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
- T Total Control HTML5 Audio Player Basic 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
- M MP3 Scraper 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
- M MP3 Playlist Lite 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
- T thefreemusician 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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