Shortcode Scrubber
by Micah Wood · Uncategorized
A powerful tool for cleaning up shortcodes on your site and confidently managing plugins and themes that use shortcodes.
45 health vs 57 average across 9,143 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.17.
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 2042 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
32
now · peak 102
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.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-07-12 50+ → 40+ down after 139 days in band
- 2026-02-23 60+ → 50+ down after 195 days in band
- 2025-08-12 70+ → 60+ down after 3 days in band
- 2025-08-09 60+ → 70+ up after 2 days in band
- 2025-08-07 70+ → 60+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-08-05 60+ → 70+ up after 6 days in band
- 2025-07-30 70+ → 60+ down after 5 days in band
- 2025-07-25 60+ → 70+ 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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Shortcodes Ultimate – Content Elements 400K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A - M MW WP Form 200K+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag A
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Shortcoder — Create Shortcodes for Anything 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more 80K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag C -
Column Shortcodes 60K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag D -
Shortcode in Menus 50K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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