Social Block
by Josh Pollock · Uncategorized
Also makes 8 other plugins · 650+ installs across the portfolio →
Social share block for the new Gutenberg post editor.
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Health
D 44/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈15 estimated
Momentum
+312%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 0/100. Last updated 3217 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
44 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.4%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 2.5K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,765 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35, well behind 6.8.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3217 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.9.35; the current branch is 6.8
4.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.10★ and held back under 25 reviews
0 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3217 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 6 Oct 2022 · 1,486 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 52 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
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
8.8y ago
latest release · v1.0.0 · 9 Jan 2018
1
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 “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4.1 years ago; the previous band took 22 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 28 Mar 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Bridget Willard8.8y ago
Thank you Josh and James for building this. I love that I can download Gutenberg-compatible plugins to test on GutenBridget.com. The buttons look great and the work very well. Thank you. The weird part for me is not seeing the preview or a save option when I add the block. I just updated the post and boom, it worked. The other thing that is a tiny bit of a bummer, though I suspect it’s because I don’t have a block template yet, is that I have to add it to each post manually. Whereas with Mashshare, I just tell it to be on all posts. I cannot wait to see how you iterate this plugin. I’m so excited about this. Thank you Bridget Willard BridgetWillard.com GutenBridget.com
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
5 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Social share block for the new Gutenberg post editor."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 3 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 2 of 3 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gutenberg, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and 1 more.
- ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 2 lists.
- ! Enough to quote 307 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text No tags set.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2022-10-05 20+ → 10+ down after 664 days in tier
- 2020-12-10 30+ → 20+ down
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