Simple Discography
by lermit4 · Uncategorized
Simple Discography is a easy to use plugin that will allow you to manage the music tracks for an album or albums.
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Health
D 44/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
70+
≈75 estimated
Momentum
-14%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: One page off on “discography”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
44 health vs 58 average across 25,738 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.1%
of downloads still active
At least 70 of 6.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,771 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, well behind 6.8.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 4172 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.2.39; the current branch is 6.8
4.0★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.09★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 4172 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| discography your tag | #13 | #14 | down 1 |
| album your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| artist your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| music your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| music manage your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- One page off on “discography”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- “album”, “artist” and “music” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 166 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #18,200 to #19,000, alongside the other plugins at 70+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
11.4y ago
latest release · v1.3.1 · 30 May 2015
3
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “70+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 6 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 26 May 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ djvreditel5.3y ago
Need a little improvement related to $.browser.webkit it’s deprecated and JS not working, but it’s easy to fix.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ SJW11.3y ago
Out of the box the plugin wouldn’t let me create a new album. Checked error_log and found: PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function setTime() on a non-object in /wp-content/plugins/simple-discography/SiDi_Posts.php Googled it and found someone else had the same problem which is clearly not resolved..
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Antimatzist11.7y ago
THis is a very simple, yet effective discography plugin. It doesn’t allow for much customization, but what it does, it does nearly perfectly. It let’s you create a discography page with the cover artoworks of all of your releases. You can order them either as a list or as thumbnails. If you click on the cover artworks, you get a preview of all the songs and information that you previously included. It also allows you to create a small discography in your widget area which looks very much like the discography on bandcamp. ALl in all, this is a very effective plugin that I can highly recommend at the moment. i tried out several, but none really pleased me as much as this one. I hope the author of it will implement his planned features in the future which will make an already very good plugin perfect.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Simple Discography is a easy to use plugin that will allow you to manage the music tracks for an album or a..."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 3 headings and 8 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,341 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "artist", "music manage" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-04-26 80+ → 70+ down after 19 days in tier
- 2026-04-07 70+ → 80+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2026-04-02 80+ → 70+ down after 129 days in tier
- 2025-11-24 90+ → 80+ down after 183 days in tier
- 2025-05-25 80+ → 90+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2025-05-21 90+ → 80+ down after 289 days in tier
- 2024-08-05 100+ → 90+ down after 17 days in tier
- 2024-07-19 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
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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Setlist 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags - A Artistography 10+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags D
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Audio Album 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B - M Musopress Discography 90+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
- B Beatport Discography shortcode 80+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
- D Discography 20+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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