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Profiless

by firebird75 · Admin & Utilities

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Profiless is a plugin that removes access to the profile page based on user role.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

50+

Active installs

≈57 estimated

5.4K

Total downloads

since 2009

3.77★

Rating (adjusted)

3.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+116%

67

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.27, 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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 11/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2755 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+116% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

67

now · peak 74

6730d downloads · Aug 26

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

Profiless · #20263 you Loginizer · #46 Admin Menu Editor · #159 LWS Tools · #1463

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.

1.3Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

7.5y ago

latest release · v1.8

9

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.8 · 7.5y ago1.7 · 14.1y ago1.6 · 15.9y ago1.5 · 16.2y ago1.4 · 16.8y ago1.3 · 17.0y ago1.2 · 17.2y ago1.1 · 17.4y ago1.0 · 17.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.8 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “50+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
50–60 ≈57

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

At the current install trend, crossing 60+ in roughly 559 days.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations

50Installs · Aug 26

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

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.8
Last updated
7.5y ago
Added
2009-03-12 · 17 yrs old
Requires WP
2.7.1
Tested up to
5.0.27
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ mikelukins
    6.4y ago

    Simple and works. I used this to stop users from getting access to their profile and changing their password.

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  2. ★★★★★ orbitalbundle
    7.3y ago

    Installed plugin, activated it, went to Settings and selected everyone but Administrator, saved settings, page reloaded with random items deselected. I tested with a user login in a separate browser and the plugin settings failed to hide the Profile menu. I don’t want to have to keep resetting user passwords once I’ve created accounts.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-13 60+ → 50+ down after 6 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-07 50+ → 60+ up after 3 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-04 60+ → 50+ down after 9 days in tier
  4. 2026-05-26 50+ → 60+ up after 12 days in tier
  5. 2026-05-14 60+ → 50+ down after 6 days in tier
  6. 2026-05-08 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-05-07 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2026-05-06 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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