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Social Icon Widget

by Mostafiz Shamim · Social

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Social Icon Widget is an awesome widget to display your social prfile links by social media icons. Recent most popular social media icons are added in …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 55 average across 1,135 Social plugins

500+

Active installs

≈570 estimated

14.2K

Total downloads

since 2016

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+109%

155

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3192 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+109% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

155

now · peak 170

15130d downloads · Aug 26

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

Social Icon Widget · #9157 you Lightweight Social I · #1070 Meks Smart Social Wi · #1547 Social Icons · #2076

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

302per 1k installs · Aug 26

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈570

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

Install history · since 2016-06-17 · 1,420 observations

500Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.2
Last updated
8.7y ago
Added
2016-05-18 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP
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  1. ★★★★★ LazyPersons
    10.3y ago

    A very useful plugin for adding links to social networks with proper options in the back end. Thumbs up for you guys. !!!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-12-03 600+ → 500+ down after 247 days in tier
  2. 2025-03-31 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-03-30 600+ → 700+ up after 2 days in tier
  4. 2025-03-28 700+ → 600+ down after 262 days in tier
  5. 2024-07-09 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2024-07-08 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-07-07 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-07-06 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier

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