Skeleton Key
by sant0sk1 · Admin & Utilities
Gives administrators a skeleton key (their own password) to login as any user they'd like.
41 health vs 54 average across 2,160 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 16+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2, 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 6053 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
48
now · peak 132
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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 873 days.
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
- 2026-06-07 50+ → 40+ down after 7 days in band
- 2026-05-31 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-30 50+ → 40+ down after 4 days in band
- 2026-05-26 40+ → 50+ up after 340 days in band
- 2025-06-20 50+ → 40+ down after 3 days in band
- 2025-06-17 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-06-16 50+ → 40+ down after 251 days in band
- 2024-10-08 60+ → 50+ down after 19 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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Theme My Login 60K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
Login as User 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Google Authenticator 20K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A - U Uber Login Logo 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags D
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Frontend Reset Password 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
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