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Quick Bar – Popup Notification Sidebar

by f1logic · Uncategorized

Also makes 12 other plugins · 129.3K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Create a javascript based, light-weight and responsive popup notification sidebar in your blog.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 56 average across 16,379 Uncategorized plugins

30+

Active installs

≈37 estimated

21.7K

Total downloads

since 2012

3.85★

Rating (adjusted)

3.7★ raw · 3 reviews

-6%

163

Downloads · 30d

category median +20%

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, 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 10/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2982 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

-6% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

163

now · peak 1.4K

16330d 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

Quick Bar · #24976 you My Sticky Bar · #430 WPFront Notification · #785 NotificationX · #945

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.7Stars · Aug 26

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.

5.4Kper 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

8.2y ago

latest release · v1.2.2

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.2 · 8.2y ago1.2.1 · 9.2y ago1.2 · 11.3y ago1.1 · 11.9y ago1.0 · 13.0y 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈37

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

At the current install trend, crossing 40+ in roughly 232 days.

Install history · since 2021-07-27 · 1,386 observations

30Installs · 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.

Ratings · 3 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.2.2
Last updated
8.2y ago
Added
2012-09-13 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ marcfuller
    12.3y ago

    works well, love the flexible settings and different uses!

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  2. ★★★★★ General Seed
    12.7y ago

    Simple and beautiful, works fine on wp 3.8 and 3.9 alpha Merry Christmas

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  3. ★★★★★ Bogdan Chirea
    13.6y ago

    This plugin works if you get the premium version, otherwise it simply creates a pop up dialog on the webpage, wich you can alos create using a free script searching google.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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

  1. 2026-08-07 20+ → 30+ up after 41 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-27 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-25 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-06-24 30+ → 20+ down after 12 days in tier
  5. 2026-06-12 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
  6. 2026-06-10 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in tier
  7. 2026-06-08 20+ → 30+ up after 3 days in tier
  8. 2026-06-05 30+ → 20+ down after 7 days in tier

Competes with

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