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Relative URL

by Sparanoid · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 7 other plugins · 3.5K+ installs across the portfolio →

Relative URL applies wp_make_link_relative function to links to convert them to relative URLs.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

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.

52 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 83/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1844 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+43% vs prior 30d
22Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

436

now · peak 858

43630d 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

Relative URL · #4200 you One Click Close Comm · #3263 Error Log Monitor · #1271 Automatic Domain Cha · #1950

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.2Stars · 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.

145per 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

5.1y ago

latest release · v0.1.8

21

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.1.8 · 5.1y ago0.1.7 · 7.8y ago0.1.6 · 8.0y ago0.1.5 · 9.7y ago0.1.4 · 9.7y ago0.1.3 · 10.4y ago0.1.2 · 10.5y ago0.1.1 · 10.6y ago0.1.0 · 10.6y ago0.0.13 · 10.8y ago0.0.12 · 11.0y ago0.0.11 · 11.3y ago0.0.10 · 12.0y ago0.0.9 · 12.7y 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.

v0.1 100%
v0.0 0.5%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
3K–4K ≈3.9K

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

Install history · since 2015-04-08 · 1,453 observations

3KInstalls · 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
0.1.8
Last updated
5.1y ago
Added
2012-09-16 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
2.1.0
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ams047
    4.5y ago

    Unfortunately you cannot create posts or pages when version 0.1.8 of this plugin is active with WordPress 5.9.1

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  2. tsf999
    4.7y ago

    Not doing anything with WP 5.8. And sadly, this is the 3rd and the last available plugin I tried with no luck.

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  3. instinctcreatif
    7.1y ago

    This makes life easier for local development. I use it with ngrok to show my projects to my clients 🙂 That works well! Do not forget to deactivate it when you put your website on the final server online 🙂

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  4. Mike Garde
    7.7y ago

    Using WP 5.0 and Divi Theme, this works great, allowing me to deliver site via AWS CloudFront

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  5. dipraj2008
    9.0y ago

    Relative url

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  6. renattto
    9.2y ago

    Using to test a local wordpress site with ngrok and worked without any issues. Thanks!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. yeb215
    9.3y ago

    The relative URL plugin will break Jetpack. { error: "jetpack_verification_failed", message: "The response from the Jetpack site could not be verified." }

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  8. staf4
    9.6y ago

    Ломает визуальный редактор админки

    Read on wp.org ↗

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 0.1.8 Compatibility check for 5.8, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works. 0.1.8
  2. Version 0.1.7 Compatibility check for 5.0, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works. 0.1.7
  3. Version 0.1.6 Fix ob_end_flush errors 0.1.6
  4. Version 0.1.5 Use buffer method again, it’s better with less issues since it mainly works for development environment. 0.1.5
  5. Version 0.1.4 Compatibility check for 4.6 and 4.7, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works. 0.1.4
  6. Version 0.1.3 Compatibility check for 4.5, nothing new, just bump version to tell everyone this plugin still works. 0.1.3

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8

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. 2024-11-08 4K+ → 3K+ down after 546 days in tier
  2. 2023-05-12 5K+ → 4K+ down

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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