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SM Google+ Plugins

by Mahabubur Rahman · Admin & Utilities

The Google+ Plugins is a wordpress widget plugin. It lets you easily embed and promote any Google Plus Page or User profile follow button on your webs …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 57 average across 1,490 Admin & Utilities plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3614 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

-30% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

19

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

SM Google+ Plugins · #39629 Widgets for Google R · #69 Ad Widget for WordPr · #4497 Google Plus Authorsh · #6649

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

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈16

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
9.9y ago
Added
2016-08-24 · 9 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.5.1
Tested up to
4.7.33
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

No band 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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SM Google+ Plugins: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/sm-google-plus