Post Status Menu Items
by mrwweb · Admin & Utilities
Adds post status links–e.g. "Draft" (7)–to post type admin menus and a few other nice goodies.
47 health vs 56 average across 1,560 Admin & Utilities 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.25, 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 2781 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
31
now · peak 95
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,371 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-30 100+ → 200+ up after 41 days in band
- 2026-04-19 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-04-17 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-04-16 200+ → 100+ down after 902 days in band
- 2023-10-27 300+ → 200+ down after 3 days in band
- 2023-10-24 200+ → 300+ up after 3 days in band
- 2023-10-21 300+ → 200+ down after 18 days in band
- 2023-10-03 200+ → 300+ up after 1 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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Reveal IDs 40K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Catch IDs 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
Rename wp-admin login 8K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B - A Add Logo to Admin 6K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag D
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