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Standout CSS3 Buttons

by jp2112 · Uncategorized

Also makes 12 other plugins · 1.0K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Display CSS3 style buttons with gradient color styles on your website using shortcodes or PHP function call.

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

46 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

500+

Active installs

≈550 estimated

39.2K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.12★

Rating (adjusted)

4.4★ raw · 11 reviews

+32%

111

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, 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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 64/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4239 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+32% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

111

now · peak 162

10630d 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

Standout CSS3 Button · #8931 you Advanced Custom Fiel · #11490 Edit Post Link · #18775 Custom Post Type Per · #275

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.4Stars · Aug 26

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.

212per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.3 98%
v0.2 2.1%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈550

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

Install history · since 2019-07-23 · 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.

Ratings · 11 reviews

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5★
8 4★
0 3★
2 2★
1 1★
0

Details

Version
0.3.0
Last updated
11.6y ago
Added
2013-02-06 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.1.42
Requires PHP
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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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 76 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

Japanese 15%
Romanian 15%
English (Canada) 12%
Russian 12%
Slovak 12%
Azerbaijani 9%
English (UK) 9%
Finnish 9%
French (France) 9%
German 9%
Swedish 9%
Welsh 9%
Basque 7%
Dutch 7%
English (New Zealand) 7%
French (Canada) 7%
Greek 7%
Hebrew 7%
Ukrainian 7%
Catalan 6%
Croatian 6%
English (Australia) 6%
Esperanto 6%
German (Formal) 6%

Plus 52 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-08 600+ → 500+ down after 317 days in tier
  2. 2025-05-26 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-05-25 600+ → 700+ up after 6 days in tier
  4. 2025-05-19 700+ → 600+ down after 2 days in tier
  5. 2025-05-17 600+ → 700+ up after 2 days in tier
  6. 2025-05-15 700+ → 600+ down after 166 days in tier
  7. 2024-11-30 800+ → 700+ down after 150 days in tier
  8. 2024-07-03 900+ → 800+ down after 79 days in tier

Competes with

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