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Quick admin color scheme picker

by mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 11 other plugins · 4.8K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Lets you quickly switch between admin color schemes from the "howdy menu." Happy Birthday Sara Cannon! Contribute to development on GitHub.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

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

10+

Active installs

≈17 estimated

4.6K

Total downloads

since 2011

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+44%

36

Downloads · 30d

category median +24%

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4284 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+44% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

36

now · peak 59

3630d downloads · Sep 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

Quick admin color sc · #45132 you Radio Buttons for Ta · #1186 Category Checklist T · #3136 Taxonomy Tags to Che · #5991

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.

3.6Kper 1k installs · Sep 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

11.7y ago

latest release · v0.7

7

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.7 · 11.7y ago0.6 · 13.9y ago0.5 · 14.8y ago0.4 · 14.8y ago0.3 · 14.8y ago0.2 · 15.2y ago0.1 · 15.2y 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.

v0.7 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈17

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-09-06 · 1,377 observations

10Installs · Sep 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.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.7
Last updated
11.7y ago
Added
2011-06-06 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
3.3
Tested up to
4.0.38
Requires PHP
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  1. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    7.9y ago

    I love this little unknown plugin. Does one simple, small thing… but does it so nicely. It’s one of those plugins that you wonder: Why isn’t this part of the WP core?! It speeds up the process of quickly selecting a new admin color scheme, especially for people like me that like to change it often. Thanks for this!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4

✓ 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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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