Post Status Indicator
by Sean Hayes · Admin & Utilities
Allow color customization in WordPress admin for the publish state of your content.
41 health vs 53 average across 3,223 Admin & Utilities plugins
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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.17.
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 2017 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
25
now · peak 55
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 · 1,370 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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LH Archived Post Status 3K+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags C - W WP Admin UI Customize 30K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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Archive Content with Archived Post Status 5K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
One Click Close Comments 4K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C - P Peter’s Post Notes 3K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D
- H HiFi (Head Injection, Foot Injection) 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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