Simple Font Awesome Icon
by jomol · Uncategorized
Simple Font Awesome plugin will give you the option for adding Font Awesome icons for your post and pages in the form of a meta box.
45 health vs 55 average across 14,480 Uncategorized 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, 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 2969 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
22
now · peak 54
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
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “—”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Better Font Awesome 70K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags C -
Custom Icons for Elementor and WPBakery 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
WP Font Awesome 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags C -
JVM Rich Text Icons 3K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
WP and Divi Icons 2K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D -
Web Icons 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
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