Popular This Week
by chrisnorthwood · Analytics
Provides a widget that shows the most popular posts in the last week.
41 health vs 64 average across 537 Analytics 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 17+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.1, 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 6271 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 2022-10-10 · 1,376 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
17
now · peak 52
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 2022-10-09 · 1,360 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-03-21 20+ → 10+ down after 14 days in band
- 2024-03-07 10+ → 20+ up after 40 days in band
- 2024-01-27 20+ → 10+ down after 68 days in band
- 2023-11-20 10+ → 20+ up after 24 days in band
- 2023-10-27 20+ → 10+ down after 141 days in band
- 2023-06-08 10+ → 20+ up after 55 days in band
- 2023-04-14 20+ → 10+ down after 60 days in band
- 2023-02-13 10+ → 20+ up after 26 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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Connect Matomo – Analytics Dashboard for WordPress 60K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Search Meter 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B - N NewStatPress 8K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/popular-this-week" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Popular This Week — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Popular This Week: 10+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/popular-this-week