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Shortcode Toggle

by Arefly · Admin & Utilities

Add Useful Toggle Menu to your blog simply by shortcode.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
48 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 83/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 58 average across 1,332 Admin & Utilities plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 60/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4512 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-37% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

34

now · peak 81

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

Shortcode Toggle · #14260 Menu In Post · #4485 Shortcodes Ultimate · #146 Admin Menu Editor · #159

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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
1.0.9
Last updated
12.4y ago
Added
2014-03-08 · 12 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.7.41
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2025-02-21 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in band
  2. 2025-02-16 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in band
  3. 2025-02-14 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
  4. 2025-02-13 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in band
  5. 2025-02-11 200+ → 100+ down after 557 days in band
  6. 2023-08-04 300+ → 200+ down after 290 days in band
  7. 2022-10-18 400+ → 300+ down

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Shortcode Toggle: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/shortcode-toggle