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Smooth Snow

by codextgmbh · Uncategorized

A no Javascript Smooth Snow Animation Plugin for Wordpress.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 56 average across 12,107 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.17.

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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 25/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2039 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-07 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

0% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

166

now · peak 64K

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

Smooth Snow · #27200 ACD Admin Designer · #26104 Layout Grid Block · #232 Visual CSS Style Edi · #915

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.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-06 · 1,380 observations

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
5.6y ago
Added
2020-12-16 · 5 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
5.6.17
Requires PHP
7.0

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-03-18 30+ → 20+ down after 15 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-03 40+ → 30+ down after 19 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-12 50+ → 40+ down after 8 days in tier
  4. 2026-02-04 60+ → 50+ down after 4 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-31 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-01-30 60+ → 50+ down after 13 days in tier
  7. 2026-01-17 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2026-01-16 80+ → 70+ down after 8 days in tier

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Smooth Snow: 20+ active installs, 5.0★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/smooth-snow