Remove Problematic Formatting Options From tinyMCE
by Kim · SEO
Removes those extra-tempting but extra-problematic buttons from tinyMCE, like font color, alignment, and other things that will wreck your style sheet …
47 health vs 62 average across 918 SEO 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.10.
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 1213 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
24
now · peak 143
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
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,367 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-04-03 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2024-03-31 10+ → 20+ up after 14 days in tier
- 2024-03-17 20+ → 10+ down after 286 days in tier
- 2023-06-05 30+ → 20+ down after 64 days in tier
- 2023-04-02 40+ → 30+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2023-03-26 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-03-25 40+ → 30+ down after 59 days in tier
- 2023-01-25 50+ → 40+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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SpeedyCache – Cache, Optimization, Performance 600K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
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