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Post Series Manager

by Jeffrey de Wit · Uncategorized

This plugin will help you manage and display post series more easily. You'll be able to create/assign series assign posts to it.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 56 average across 15,966 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, 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.

27 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 52/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3096 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-59% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

17

now · peak 65

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

Post Series Manager · #24700 Post Duplicator · #219 Header and Footer Sc · #251 Post Type Switcher · #271

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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈25

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,363 observations

Details

Version
1.2.1
Last updated
8.5y ago
Added
2015-03-19 · 11 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.8
Tested up to
4.9.29
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-02-07 30+ → 20+ down after 168 days in tier
  2. 2025-08-23 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-08-22 30+ → 20+ down after 5 days in tier
  4. 2025-08-17 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-08-16 30+ → 20+ down after 5 days in tier
  6. 2025-08-11 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-08-10 30+ → 20+ down after 21 days in tier
  8. 2025-07-20 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier

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