Shiny Updates
by Konstantin Obenland · Admin & Utilities
A smoother experience for managing plugins and themes.
48 health vs 57 average across 1,515 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30, 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 3580 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
56
now · peak 157
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
- Version
- 3-20160927
- Last updated
- 9.8y ago
- Added
- 2015-12-10 · 10 yrs on WP
- Requires WP
- 4.6
- Tested up to
- 4.6.30
- Requires PHP
- —
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-04-29 20+ → 10+ down after 77 days in band
- 2026-02-11 10+ → 20+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-02-08 20+ → 10+ down after 194 days in band
- 2025-07-29 30+ → 20+ down after 353 days in band
- 2024-08-10 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-08-09 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in band
- 2024-08-06 40+ → 30+ down after 6 days in band
- 2024-07-31 30+ → 40+ up after 3 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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All In One Favicon 60K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D - C Cryout Serious Theme Settings 40K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
- W WP Updates Notifier 30K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
- S ShowID for Post/Page/Category/Tag/Comment 8K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
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Theme Test Drive 7K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D - R Root Relative URLs 6K+ installs · 3.3★ · 2 shared tags F
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