Select Category to Post
by 水野史土 · Admin & Utilities
Category names are shown on your dashboard with a hyperlink, and when you click one, you will go to post-new.php, with the category already selected.
45 health vs 55 average across 2,007 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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 5190 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
54
now · peak 134
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.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-01-18 50+ → 40+ down after 76 days in band
- 2025-11-03 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-11-02 70+ → 60+ down after 54 days in band
- 2025-09-09 50+ → 70+ up after 222 days in band
- 2025-01-30 60+ → 50+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-01-28 50+ → 60+ up after 16 days in band
- 2025-01-12 60+ → 50+ down after 580 days in band
- 2023-06-12 70+ → 60+ down after 64 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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Admin Menu Editor 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
White Label CMS 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Display PHP Version 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags D -
Widget Disable 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags C -
Term Management Tools 10K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags B - A Adjust Admin Categories 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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