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Silent Publish

by Scott Reilly · Uncategorized

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Adds the ability to publish a post without triggering pingbacks, trackbacks, or notifying update services.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 72/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 56 average across 16,379 Uncategorized plugins

60+

Active installs

≈67 estimated

6.8K

Total downloads

since 2010

3.91★

Rating (adjusted)

4.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+56%

56

Downloads · 30d

category median +20%

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.23, 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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 17/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2390 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

+56% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

56

now · peak 83

5630d 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

Silent Publish · #18735 you No Self Ping · #1612 Force Ping Display w · #30808 PRyC WP: Disable sel · #34804

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4Stars · Aug 26

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.

933per 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

6.5y ago

latest release · v2.8

13

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.8 · 6.5y ago2.7 · 7.2y ago2.6.1 · 8.1y ago2.5 · 10.4y ago2.4.2 · 11.5y ago2.4.1 · 11.5y ago2.4 · 12.6y ago2.3 · 13.7y ago2.2.1 · 14.7y ago2.2 · 15.1y ago2.1 · 15.5y ago2.0.1 · 15.9y ago2.0 · 16.0y 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.

v2.8 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “60+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
60–70 ≈67

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

Install history · since 2015-03-21 · 1,380 observations

60Installs · 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.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
0 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
2.8
Last updated
6.5y ago
Added
2010-09-09 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
5.3.23
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Jay F Kay
    13.6y ago

    Could be a five star plugin, but the checkbox of Silent Publish is not present when editing a post that has already been published. If you fix this, you’ll get the fifth star and a donation… 😉

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-10 70+ → 60+ down after 22 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-18 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-17 70+ → 60+ down after 8 days in tier
  4. 2026-06-09 60+ → 70+ up after 12 days in tier
  5. 2026-05-28 70+ → 60+ down after 3 days in tier
  6. 2026-05-25 60+ → 70+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2026-05-23 70+ → 60+ down after 108 days in tier
  8. 2026-02-04 80+ → 70+ down after 5 days in tier

Competes with

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