South African Covid-19 Banner
by seagyn · Uncategorized
This plugin makes it easy for South African WordPress sites to add the Covid-19 banner as required by the South African government.
45 health vs 59 average across 7,120 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.19.
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 2286 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
23
now · peak 83
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 “90+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-02-26 100+ → 90+ down after 8 days in band
- 2026-02-18 90+ → 100+ up after 7 days in band
- 2026-02-11 100+ → 90+ down after 587 days in band
- 2024-07-04 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-07-02 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in band
- 2024-06-29 200+ → 100+ down after 324 days in band
- 2023-08-10 300+ → 200+ down after 204 days in band
- 2023-01-18 400+ → 300+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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