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Responsive Search Widget

by Erin McIntyre · Search

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A responsive search widget with a search field that re-sizes in response to user screen size.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 14/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 60 average across 606 Search plugins

50+

Active installs

≈57 estimated

3.3K

Total downloads

since 2015

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+29%

76

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

54 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 22/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 972 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

+29% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

76

now · peak 177

7630d 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

Responsive Search Wi · #20474 you Search Regex · #289 Relevanssi · #349 Search & Replace · #360

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.

1.5Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “50+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
50–60 ≈57

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,386 observations

50Installs · 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 · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.1.1
Last updated
2.7y ago
Added
2015-12-23 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    10.6y ago

    Solves a problem. In the future it would be good to get the option of a magnifying glass button instead of text.

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  2. ★★★★★ iamerinmcintyre
    10.7y ago

    The default WP search widget didn’t look nice in my sidebar. It kept spilling over the edge on smaller screen sizes. This responsive search widget fixed the problem – the size of the search field adjusts to smaller or larger screen sizes. Thanks!!!

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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. 2025-12-03 60+ → 50+ down after 470 days in tier
  2. 2024-08-20 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2024-08-19 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2024-08-18 70+ → 60+ down after 6 days in tier
  5. 2024-08-12 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-08-11 70+ → 60+ down after 33 days in tier
  7. 2024-07-09 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-07-08 70+ → 60+ down after 7 days in tier

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