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The Stars at Night

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Stars-at-night displays astronomical data for a specified location and date.

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

46 health vs 56 average across 16,380 Uncategorized plugins

100+

Active installs

≈190 estimated

7.0K

Total downloads

since 2016

4.12★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 3 reviews

+56%

70

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 52/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1816 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+56% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

70

now · peak 124

7030d downloads · Sep 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

The Stars at Night · #13906 you Moon Phases · #10524 WP Moon Phase Widget · #12115 Curiosity POTD · #27973

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.

700per 1k installs · Sep 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

5.0y ago

latest release · v1.9.1

17

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.9.1 · 5.0y ago1.9 · 5.0y ago1.8 · 5.0y ago1.8.1 · 5.0y ago1.7.3 · 5.0y ago1.7.2 · 5.0y ago1.7.1 · 7.3y ago1.7 · 7.3y ago1.6 · 9.5y ago1.5.1 · 9.6y ago1.5 · 9.6y ago1.4 · 9.6y ago1.3 · 9.7y ago1.2 · 9.7y ago

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.

v1.9 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

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

Install history · since 2021-04-18 · 1,378 observations

100Installs · Sep 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 · 3 reviews

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5★
3 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.9.1
Last updated
5.0y ago
Added
2016-12-11 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP
7.0
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ keither713
    6.4y ago

    Overall, a really great plugin! Works great for our site. Would be amazing if you could have the formatting center, and it was mobile format-friendly. Otherwise, nicely done. Thanks again!

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  2. ★★★★★ aliazad
    6.4y ago

    It is so useful and nice plugin. although it need to remove Iridium flares. no Iridium satellite in orbit. It will be the best plugin of wordpress if it can take lot & long from visitors server. Just saying 🙂

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  3. ★★★★★ baileys2611
    8.6y ago

    Fantastic plugin for astronomy information. There are a few ‘glitches’ (day of 0 moon for example is a glitch), but otherwise works very well. Only suggestions are to add possible formatting options (center the displays for example, change the colour of the table header, incorporate google fonts options).

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Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8.1

✓ 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

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Translated into 4 languages, 4 at 90% or more

Dutch 100%
Spanish (Chile) 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Swedish 100%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-08-25 200+ → 100+ down after 117 days in tier
  2. 2025-04-30 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-04-29 200+ → 100+ down

Competes with

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