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Simple Floating Menu

by hashthemes · Admin & Utilities

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Simple Floating Menu adds a floating sticky bar of icon buttons to your site, with tooltips, in the position and shape you choose.

How scoring works →
90 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 94/100
Support 70/100

90 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

10K+

Active installs

≈15K estimated

259.9K

Total downloads

since 2020

4.74★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 38 reviews

-5%

6.7K

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

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81 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Support resolution

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 90/100
Listing tuning 92/100
Support resolution 0/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-5% vs prior 30d
4.1KDownloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

6.7K

now · peak 12.8K

6.7K30d 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 Floating Menu · #1829 you Float menu · #995 Side Menu Lite · #2629 DeveloPress Sticky F · #9982

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.

669per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

3

releases in the last 12 months

1mo ago

latest release · v1.3.3

33

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.3 · 1mo ago1.3.2 · 9mo ago1.3.1 · 11mo ago1.3.0 · 1.3y ago1.2.8 · 2.1y ago1.2.7 · 2.7y ago1.2.6 · 3.0y ago1.2.5 · 3.0y ago1.2.4 · 3.3y ago1.2.3 · 3.3y ago1.2.2 · 3.3y ago1.2.1 · 3.4y ago1.2.0 · 3.5y ago1.1.9 · 3.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 74% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 74%
v1.2 19%
Older / other versions 7.2%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10K–20K ≈15K

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2021-06-13 · 1,426 observations

10KInstalls · 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.

Ratings · 38 reviews

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5★
38 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.3.4
Last updated
2d ago
Added
2020-03-30 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
6.3
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.2
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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 1.3.3 Compatibility test with WordPress version 7.0 1.3.3
  2. — Version 1.3.2 Compatibility test with WordPress version 6.9 1.3.2
  3. — Version 1.0.4 Minor Changes and Pro Version Upgrade Banner 1.0.4
  4. — Version 1.0.3 12 Oct, 2020 * Design issue in the ToolTip pointer arrow of the Edit Button for various position/orientation fixed 1.0.3
  5. — Version 1.0.2 Added setting button in front end with disable option in the admin 1.0.2
  6. — Version 1.0.1 Added Option to enable/disable floating menu Admin panel design refinement 1.0.1

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.9

✓ 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

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Translated into 3 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Russian 98%
Ukrainian 96%
Dutch 11%

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

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