Revisions
by Paul Menard · Admin & Utilities
Provide Versioning, Preview and Rollback ability on Pages and Posts.
41 health vs 57 average across 1,415 Admin & Utilities 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 18+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.5.1, 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 6629 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
22
now · peak 67
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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 89 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-18 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-06-17 40+ → 50+ up after 45 days in band
- 2026-05-03 30+ → 40+ up after 44 days in band
- 2026-03-20 20+ → 30+ up after 30 days in band
- 2026-02-18 30+ → 20+ down after 77 days in band
- 2025-12-03 40+ → 30+ down after 113 days in band
- 2025-08-12 30+ → 40+ up after 114 days in band
- 2025-04-20 40+ → 30+ down after 410 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- W WP Revisions Control 40K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
- R Root Relative URLs 6K+ installs · 3.3★ · 2 shared tags F
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WP Super Edit 2K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D -
Elementor Website Builder – more than just a page builder 10M+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
Classic Editor 9M+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag B
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