Popping Sidebars and Widgets Light
by OTWthemes · Booking & Events
Also makes 11 other plugins · 5.6K+ installs across the portfolio →
Create custom popping layouts with sidebars and widgets in just a few clicks.
39 health vs 68 average across 1,633 Booking & Events plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.5%
of downloads still active
At least 90 of 19.7K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Booking & Events plugin keeps 0.8%, across 901 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Booking & Events plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.18.
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
Most to gain: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1637 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 2024-09-24 · 730 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
117
now · peak 121
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “90+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2026-09-23 · 2 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Known vulnerabilities
via Wordfence Intelligence2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 2 still affect the current version.
- Medium · 4.4 Popping Sidebars and Widgets Light <= 1.27 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗2025-12-26 CVE-2025-69007 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.27 No patch available
Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.
CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.
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. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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