Sitewide (Admin) Header/Footer
by Philipp15b · Admin & Utilities
Change the header/footer of the front- and backend of WordPress Multisite
45 health vs 59 average across 1,202 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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1, 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 5486 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
20
now · peak 62
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-11 40+ → 30+ down after 11 days in band
- 2026-05-31 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-29 40+ → 30+ down after 111 days in band
- 2026-02-07 30+ → 40+ up after 10 days in band
- 2026-01-28 40+ → 30+ down after 151 days in band
- 2025-08-30 30+ → 40+ up after 31 days in band
- 2025-07-30 40+ → 30+ down after 100 days in band
- 2025-04-21 30+ → 40+ up after 17 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Header Footer Code Manager 600K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Insert Headers And Footers 300K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Head, Footer and Post Injections 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Header and Footer Scripts 200K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags B - S SOGO Add Script to Individual Pages Header Footer 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
- R Root Relative URLs 6K+ installs · 3.3★ · 2 shared tags F
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