Sidebar Menu
by HooThemes · Admin & Utilities
A sidebar menu allows you to organize information vertically, it is a part of a web page that makes it easy to place navigation or display links to he …
42 health vs 63 average across 896 Admin & Utilities 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.12.
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 1343 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 2022-10-10 · 1,376 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
58
now · peak 173
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-09 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-01-09 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-01-08 20+ → 10+ down after 244 days in band
- 2025-05-09 10+ → 20+ up after 169 days in band
- 2024-11-21 20+ → 10+ down after 295 days in band
- 2024-01-31 10+ → 20+ up after 26 days in band
- 2024-01-05 20+ → 10+ down after 14 days in band
- 2023-12-22 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in band
- 2023-12-20 20+ → 10+ down after 27 days in band
Competes with
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