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Simple Scroll Up Button

by wpforest · Uncategorized

Simple Scroll Up Button is a lightweight plugin which adds a simple scroll up button on the page of your WordPress website.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 65 average across 3,984 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.19.

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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 19/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2165 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-45% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

24

now · peak 66

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 Scroll Up But · #24313 WPFront Scroll Top · #275 To Top · #669 jQuery Smooth Scroll · #1854

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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈39

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,368 observations

Details

Version
1.0.3
Last updated
5.9y ago
Added
2020-08-03 · 5 yrs on WP
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
5.4.19
Requires PHP
7.0

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-08-05 40+ → 30+ down after 152 days in band
  2. 2024-03-06 30+ → 40+ up after 56 days in band
  3. 2024-01-10 40+ → 30+ down after 3 days in band
  4. 2024-01-07 30+ → 40+ up after 344 days in band
  5. 2023-01-28 20+ → 30+ up

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Simple Scroll Up Button: 30+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/simple-scroll-up-button