PW_Archives

A fully-customizable yet light-weight and intuitive archiving plugin. Its features include custom post type support, optional javascript enhancement, …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 68 average across 317 SEO plugins

10+

Active installs

≈16 estimated

5.0K

Total downloads

since 2011

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-52%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

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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 0/100

WP compatibility 1/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5328 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

-52% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 69

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

PW_Archives · #29928 WP Realtime Sitemap · #2194 Simple Yearly Archiv · #2870 Advanced Posts/Page · #3792

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

tracked estimate

10–20 ≈16

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 2.0.4
Last updated: 14.6y ago
Added: 2011-02-09 · 15 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.0
Tested up to: 3.3.2
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

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

2025-12-02 20+ → 10+ down after 788 days in band
2023-10-06 30+ → 20+ down after 215 days in band
2023-03-05 40+ → 30+ down after 56 days in band
2023-01-08 30+ → 40+ up after 36 days in band
2022-12-03 40+ → 30+ down after 4 days in band
2022-11-29 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
2022-11-27 40+ → 30+ down

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