Simba Plugin Updates Manager
by David Anderson / Team Updraft · Uncategorized
Provides a facility for distributing updates and handling licences and renewal reminders for your own WordPress plugins
85 health vs 60 average across 6,156 Uncategorized plugins
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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
45
now · peak 356
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 507 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-10 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-03-08 40+ → 30+ down after 35 days in band
- 2026-02-01 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-01-30 40+ → 30+ down after 4 days in band
- 2026-01-26 30+ → 40+ up after 28 days in band
- 2025-12-29 40+ → 30+ down after 47 days in band
- 2025-11-12 50+ → 40+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-11-10 40+ → 50+ up after 34 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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Hide Updates 6K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag D -
Updater by BestWebSoft 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag B -
WP Automatic Updates 400+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag D -
Disable Plugin Update Emails 300+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag C -
Automatic Safe Update 30+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag B
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