Simple Author Highlighter
by jimaek · Admin & Utilities
Simple Author Highlighter is a wordpress plugin that allows you to easy highlight authors comments. More on our website www.dakulov.eu
45 health vs 59 average across 1,175 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 5588 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
30
now · peak 64
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 “70+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-12-23 80+ → 70+ down after 17 days in band
- 2025-12-06 70+ → 80+ up after 2 days in band
- 2025-12-04 80+ → 70+ down after 33 days in band
- 2025-11-01 90+ → 80+ down after 52 days in band
- 2025-09-10 80+ → 90+ up after 3 days in band
- 2025-09-07 90+ → 80+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-09-05 80+ → 90+ up after 78 days in band
- 2025-06-19 90+ → 80+ down after 78 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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One Click Close Comments 4K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags C -
Relative URL 3K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D - C cbnet Multi Author Comment Notification 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
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AnyComment 5K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags D -
Bulk Delete Comments 5K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Comments Like Dislike 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
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