REST API Console
by Ryan McCue · Uncategorized
Also makes 3 other plugins · 10.3K+ installs across the portfolio →
A console for your site's REST API that lives in your WordPress admin.
43 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, well behind 6.8.
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 3561 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
56
now · peak 106
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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
9.8y ago
latest release · v2.1
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 “70+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2015-08-13 · 1,384 observations
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
Est. acquisition value
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
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Jules Colle6.4y ago
Good start, but this could be a million percent more useful if you simply added the ability to edit the query instead of just appending something. For example: a query like this will never work: /wp/v2/pages/(?P<id>[\d]+) I agree it’s nice to have it as a reference, and it should defenitly stay, BUT when you click on it, you should have an options to edit the query to turn it into /wp/v2/pages/123. I know I could get kind of the same result (except it will be wrapped inside an array) with /wp/v2/pages/?include=123, but meh.. Anyway, I’ll probably modify the plugin and create this myself, as it seems development has ceased.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-04 80+ → 70+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-05-01 70+ → 80+ up after 7 days in tier
- 2026-04-24 80+ → 70+ down after 266 days in tier
- 2025-08-01 90+ → 80+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2025-07-28 80+ → 90+ up after 54 days in tier
- 2025-06-04 90+ → 80+ down after 74 days in tier
- 2025-03-22 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2025-03-20 90+ → 100+ up after 2 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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WooCommerce Legacy REST API 400K+ installs · 2.2★ · 1 shared tag D -
Disable REST API 80K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag D -
Make Connector 80K+ installs · 3.1★ · 1 shared tag B -
JWT Authentication for WP REST API 60K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag B -
WPGraphQL 30K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Disable WP REST API 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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