Remove Footer Links
by Plugin Developer · Uncategorized
Simple way to remove footer credit links.
41 health vs 56 average across 12,598 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.13.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1541 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
63
now · peak 160
Directory rank
wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-16 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-01-13 100+ → 200+ up after 16 days in tier
- 2025-12-28 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-12-27 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2025-12-24 200+ → 100+ down after 497 days in tier
- 2024-08-14 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-08-13 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-08-11 300+ → 200+ down after 257 days in tier
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