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Show Environment in Admin Bar

by Paul Biron · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 1 other plugin · 210+ installs across the portfolio →

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Add an indication to the Admin Bar of the environment WordPress is running in (e.g., Prod, Staging, QA, Dev, etc).

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
54 Health · D
Maintenance 23/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

54 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

200+

Active installs

≈270 estimated

15.1K

Total downloads

since 2017

4.12★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 3 reviews

+230%

1.1K

Downloads · 30d

category median +20%

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

59 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 32/100
WP compatibility 88/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 776 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+230% vs prior 30d
12Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

1.1K

now · peak 1.1K

1.1K30d downloads · Aug 26

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

Show Environment in · #13134 you Hide Admin Bar · #1183 WP Hide Dashboard · #4905 Disable Admin Bar · #7501

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

5.7Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

2.1y ago

latest release · v1.2.1

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.1 · 2.1y ago1.2 · 2.1y ago1.1 · 6.2y ago1.0.1 · 9.1y ago1.0 · 9.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈270

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

Install history · since 2020-08-15 · 1,391 observations

200Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Ratings · 3 reviews

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5★
3 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.2.1
Last updated
2.1y ago
Added
2017-08-08 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
6.6.7
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ modus
    5.9y ago

    Thanks a lot for publishing and maintaining it. I’d only wish it would jump right at me by coloring the whole bar instead of a corner of the screen. This topic was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by modus.

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  2. ★★★★★ Knut Sparhell
    6.0y ago

    I’m like the author. I sometimes change admin color, but can never remember what color I set for Prod vs Dev.

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  3. ★★★★★ joppuyo
    7.5y ago

    Super handy if you are click-happy with your mouse like me. Red “Prod” badge in admin bar is effective way to prevent you from accidentally messing up the production

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.5

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Norwegian (Bokmål) 100%
Portuguese (Portugal) 100%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-13 100+ → 200+ up after 27 days in tier
  2. 2026-07-17 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
  3. 2026-07-14 100+ → 200+ up after 18 days in tier
  4. 2026-06-26 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  5. 2026-06-24 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-06-23 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-06-22 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2026-06-21 200+ → 100+ down after 4 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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