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Simple Definition List Blocks

by chiilog (Chiaki Okamoto) · Blocks

A simple definition list.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
51 Health · D
Maintenance 17/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 67 average across 1,682 Blocks plugins

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.

49 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 25/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 58/100

To rank higher: Last updated 900 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+8% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

355

now · peak 771

35730d 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

Simple Definition Li · #5670 you GenerateBlocks · #215 Spectra Legacy · #57 Kadence Blocks · #104

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.

357per 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

2.5y ago

latest release · v6.0.1

25

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

6.0.1 · 2.5y ago6.0.0 · 2.8y ago5.0.3 · 2.9y ago5.0.2 · 2.9y ago5.0.1 · 2.9y ago5.0.0 · 3.1y ago4.0.3 · 5.0y ago4.0.2 · 5.0y ago4.0.1 · 5.0y ago4.0.0 · 5.0y ago3.0.1 · 5.3y ago3.0.0 · 5.6y ago2.0.0 · 5.9y ago1.0.1 · 6.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 90% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v6.0 90%
v4.0 8.2%
Older / other versions 1.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

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

Install history · since 2020-10-09 · 1,427 observations

1KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
6.0.1
Last updated
2.5y ago
Added
2019-06-13 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
5.8
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP
7.2

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. eriky82
    5.7y ago

    I need definition lists because I create online courses and technical articles. It’s really something that should be there by default, but luckily this plugin fills the gap!

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  2. yeoric
    5.9y ago

    Very nice, I love dls, and this plugin adds them to the Gutenberg toolbox. Works great in WP 5.5.1.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.4.3

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 3 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Russian 86%
German 62%
Japanese 40%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-01-30 900+ → 1K+ up after 117 days in tier
  2. 2023-10-05 800+ → 900+ up after 232 days in tier
  3. 2023-02-15 700+ → 800+ up after 125 days in tier
  4. 2022-10-13 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2022-10-12 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2022-10-11 600+ → 700+ up

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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Simple Definition List Blocks: 1K+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/simple-definition-list-blocks