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Sweet Custom Dashboard

by Remi Corson · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 6 other plugins · 650+ installs across the portfolio →

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A nice plugin to start creating your own custom WordPress dashboard.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

400+

Active installs

≈450 estimated

12.0K

Total downloads

since 2012

4.27★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 6 reviews

+34%

98

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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 2/100
Rating quality 58/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5014 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2024-08-29 · 730 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+34% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

98

now · peak 98

9830d downloads · Aug 29

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

Sweet Custom Dashboa · #9336 you Sweet Custom Menu · #15796 Color My Posts · #19332 CMS admin area · #32597

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.

245per 1k installs · Aug 29

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.

v0.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
400–500 ≈450

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-09-06 · 42 observations

400Installs · 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 · 6 reviews

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5★
6 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.1
Last updated
13.7y ago
Added
2012-12-06 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ G Matta
    11.1y ago

    Thank you. Plugin is helped me with a very specific issue.

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  2. ★★★★★ bensita
    11.6y ago

    Great plugin, working fine in latest version 4.1 Simple and useful if you don´t want to show the default dashboard.

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  3. ★★★★★ Stanko Metodiev
    12.6y ago

    After some tweaks and little imagination you can create very beautiful Dashboard pages. Thank you for the great plugin!

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  4. ★★★★★ Richard Bland
    13.3y ago

    I am about to customise my first dashboard on my first WPMU network. I followed the tutorial earlier and it was great. Now it is time to create my own. Along with the White Label CMS plugin this is going to allow me to customise the experience for my customers. What a great plugin!

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  5. ★★★★★ aryanduntley
    13.3y ago

    I love when people find solutions to client requests and make their solutions available to the WP community. Glad to know I’m not alone in doing this. Great plugin, useful code. Thanks.

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  6. ★★★★★ ruess
    13.4y ago

    This plugin is truly awesomeness! The only thing I think it needs is a way for people to dismiss it, similar to the wordpress intro screen, without having to disable the plugin.

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Behavioral tests

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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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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