Smart Prev Next

by Greg Ross · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 37 other plugins · 6.4K+ installs across the portfolio →

Smart Previous Next - Adds smart previous/next buttons to the editor, supports both Classic and Gutenberg!

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⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 50/100

Stale · Few reviews

Active installs

20+

≈27 estimated

Momentum

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 36/100. Last updated 709 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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How scoring works →

50 Health · D

Maintenance 27/100

Rating quality 62/100

Support 70/100

50 health vs 56 average across 5,896 Admin & Utilities plugins

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

2.2K

Total downloads

since 2021 · 0.9% still active

3.5/5

Rating

1.0 on wp.org · 2 reviews

Downloads · 30d

category median +7%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.9%

of downloads still active

At least 20 of 2.2K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,189 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Ratings · 2 reviews

Details

Version: 1.6
Last updated: 1.9y ago
Added: 2021-03-18 · 5 yrs old
Requires WP: 3.5
Tested up to: 6.7.11
Requires PHP: 7.0

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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.

58 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 36/100

Updated 709 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.7.11; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 50/100

1.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 3.98★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 52/100

1 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 709 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Search visibility

How it's tracked →

Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.

Keyword	wp.org	On merit	wp.org move, 90 days
admin editor prev next your tag	#23	#24	0

1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days.

Daily downloads

Since 6 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

0% vs prior 30d

431 Oct 2026

25130

431 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 148 · peaks are release surges

501 Nov 2026

150750

501 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #25,300 to #28,300, alongside the other plugins at 20+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

501 Nov 2026

604530

501 Nov 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

Release cadence

No release in a year

from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

releases in the last 12 months

1.9y ago

latest release · v1.6 · 22 Nov 2024

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.6 · 22 Nov 20241.5 · 13 Nov 20241.4 · 13 Nov 20241.3 · 24 Jul 20241.2 · 24 Jul 20241.1 · 3 Dec 20231.0 · 18 Mar 2021

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.6 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

20–30 ≈27

Crossed into this band 8 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 69% of the way through.

Install history since 5 Oct 2022

201 Nov 2026

20100<10 installs

201 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗

★★★★★ sparky672
1.9y ago

Works great until you edit something and click “Update”, then all four navigation button are disabled. This entirely defeats the purpose and convenience of this plugin. This topic was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by sparky672.
Read on wp.org ↗
★★★★★ nexusfred
5.0y ago

Not working with custom post type on admin
Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.1

✓ Low memory footprint

✓ Low page-speed impact

✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP

✓ No PHP errors

✓ No JS errors

✓ Activates cleanly

✓ No resource errors

✓ No external HTTP errors

✓ Optimized database use

✕ Frequently updated

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

2 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

✓ Says what it does "Smart Previous Next - Adds smart previous/next buttons to the editor, supports both Classic and Gutenberg!"
! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gutenberg.
! Headings and lists 1 heading and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
! Enough to quote 649 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
! Tags match the text Only 0 of 1 tags appear in the text ("admin editor prev next" missing).

Growth timeline

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

2026-02-21 10+ → 20+ up

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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Preview card ↗

Smart Prev Next: 20+ active installs, 1.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/smart-prev-next

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