Simple Under Construction
by Shrinivas · Admin & Utilities
Simple under construction adds a mobile friendly, animated under construction page to your website with social media icons.
41 health vs 61 average across 989 Admin & Utilities 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 10+ 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.
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 3993 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
134
now · peak 141
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
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-03-29 30+ → 20+ down after 5 days in band
- 2025-03-24 20+ → 30+ up after 22 days in band
- 2025-03-02 30+ → 20+ down after 493 days in band
- 2023-10-26 40+ → 30+ down after 2 days in band
- 2023-10-24 30+ → 40+ up after 29 days in band
- 2023-09-25 40+ → 30+ down after 307 days in band
- 2022-11-22 50+ → 40+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A -
Siteready Coming Soon Under Construction 3K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B -
WP Maintenance Mode & Site Under Construction 3K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags C -
Maintenance Page 3K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags D -
Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode 3K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags C -
Simple Maintenance 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags C
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