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Rewrite Flush Button

by Shaun Scovil · Admin & Utilities

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Adds a "Flush Rewrite Rules" button to WP-Admin > Settings > Permalinks.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

100+

Active installs

≈190 estimated

5.4K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

-15%

62

Downloads · 30d

category median +23%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4831 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 · 1,428 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-15% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Sep 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

62

now · peak 173

8030d downloads · Sep 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

Rewrite Flush Button · #13762 you Loginizer · #46 Redux Framework · #70 Admin Menu Editor · #159

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.

800per 1k installs · Sep 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

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

Install history · since 2015-03-22 · 1,389 observations

100Installs · Sep 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. A declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
13.2y ago
Added
2013-06-09 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.1
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP
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  1. ★★★★★ holgerhubbs
    13.2y ago

    I also like the pristine photo with the chrome flushing apparatus. What about modifying the plugin, so that it tracks and reports the last flush. 😉

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  2. ★★★★★ Shaun Scovil
    13.2y ago

    This amazing plugin does in only ~200 lines of code what WordPress itself already does in one! 😛

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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. 2025-07-20 200+ → 100+ down after 606 days in tier
  2. 2023-11-22 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-11-21 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2023-11-20 300+ → 200+ down after 9 days in tier
  5. 2023-11-11 200+ → 300+ up after 96 days in tier
  6. 2023-08-07 300+ → 200+ down after 3 days in tier
  7. 2023-08-04 200+ → 300+ up after 10 days in tier
  8. 2023-07-25 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier

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