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Publish View

by launchinteractive · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 4.5K+ installs across the portfolio →

Adds a button so you can save Publish or save Draft and view in one step.

⚠ 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 16,376 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.35, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3411 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+45% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

110

now · peak 163

11130d 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

Publish View · #8946 you Save with keyboard · #3803 Quick Save · #37552 Save and Close · #9425

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.

222per 1k installs · Aug 26

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.

v2.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈590

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

Install history · since 2015-12-10 · 1,421 observations

500Installs · 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.

Details

Version
2.3.2
Last updated
9.3y ago
Added
2014-04-29 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.6.1
Tested up to
4.7.35
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. holgerhubbs
    11.9y ago

    Don’t ask me how often in my life I clicked “Publish” and then “View”. I don’t seem to get tired enjoying the eye button.

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  2. xjamesb
    12.3y ago

    I needed this function and it works perfectly. I really like the design. It was a clever idea to split the button. This saves space and properly tells the user that it is just two ways of doing the same thing.

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  3. launchinteractive
    12.3y ago

    Very simple handy plugin

    Read on wp.org ↗

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. 2023-12-03 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  2. 2023-12-02 500+ → 400+ down after 5 days in tier
  3. 2023-11-27 400+ → 500+ up after 18 days in tier
  4. 2023-11-09 500+ → 400+ down after 363 days in tier
  5. 2022-11-11 400+ → 500+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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Publish View: 500+ active installs, 5.0★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/publish-view