Social Profile Linking
by Sajid K.Shaikh · Social
The Simple Way to Add Retina-Ready Social Media Icons to Your Site
46 health vs 55 average across 853 Social 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, 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 3064 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
56
now · peak 3.1K
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-05-25 200+ → 100+ down after 534 days in tier
- 2023-12-08 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2023-12-06 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-12-04 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-12-03 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-12-02 300+ → 200+ down after 329 days in tier
- 2023-01-07 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-01-06 300+ → 400+ up after 8 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Social Media Widget 30K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D -
Seed Social 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags C -
Open Graphite 3K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags C -
Social Sharing (by Danny) 2K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A - S Social Media Icons Widget 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags D
- O Open Graph Pro 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/socail-profile-linking" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Social Profile Linking — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Social Profile Linking: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/socail-profile-linking