Schedule Unpublish
by Noah J. Stewart · Uncategorized
A plugin to schedule an unpublish date and time field when editing posts. A scheduled task runs hourly in the background to update the post status.
64 health vs 56 average across 10,477 Uncategorized plugins
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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 449 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 2024-08-05 · 711 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
145
now · peak 254
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 “60+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 70+ in roughly 67 days.
Install history · since 2025-04-24 · 448 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-20 50+ → 60+ up after 4 days in band
- 2026-05-16 60+ → 50+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-14 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-13 60+ → 50+ down after 8 days in band
- 2026-05-05 50+ → 60+ up after 21 days in band
- 2026-04-14 60+ → 50+ down after 4 days in band
- 2026-04-10 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-04-09 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Post Duplicator 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Header and Footer Scripts 200K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag B -
Post Type Switcher 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A - A Advanced Excerpt 70K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag D
- A Add From Server 60K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag D
- R Revision Control 40K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag D
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