Remove invalid menu items
by Shojib Khan · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 2 other plugins · 1K+ installs across the portfolio →
Remove all the invalid menu items in one click.
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Health
C 67/100
Stale · Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈1K estimated
Momentum
+29%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “remove menu” for “items”. “remove menu” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #20. “items” sits at #12 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
67 health vs 56 average across 5,896 Admin & Utilities plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →27%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 3.8K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,187 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Details
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.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 379 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.8.12, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
38
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.1
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
18%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| remove invalid menu items your tag | #1 | #18 | 0 |
| invalid | #2 | #12 | 0 |
| invalid menu your tag | #3 | #23 | up 1 |
| trash menu your tag | #3 | #22 | 0 |
| remove demo menu your tag | #8 | #21 | 0 |
| items | #12 | #22 | down 1 |
| remove menu your tag | #20 | #24 | down 1 |
| menu items | #22 | #24 | down 3 |
| remove item menu | #9 | #21 | 0 |
11 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 9 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Swap “remove menu” for “items”. “remove menu” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #20. “items” sits at #12 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 346 · peaks are release surges
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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
1.0y ago
latest release · v1.3.1 · 17 Oct 2025
3
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band today and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 1K.
Install history since 16 Aug 2022
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
3 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Remove all the invalid menu items in one click."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 3 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 3 of 3 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 561 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 5 tags appear in the text ("remove demo menu", "remove invalid menu items", "remove menu", "trash menu" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-31 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-10-30 1K+ → 900+ down after 26 days in tier
- 2026-10-04 900+ → 1K+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-09-30 1K+ → 900+ down after 16 days in tier
- 2026-09-14 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-09-13 1K+ → 900+ down after 112 days in tier
- 2026-05-24 900+ → 1K+ up after 132 days in tier
- 2026-01-12 800+ → 900+ up after 17 days in tier
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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