Simply Better Scroll Bar
by SwiftNinjaPro · Uncategorized
A simple, better looking scrollbar for your website.
41 health vs 58 average across 8,641 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.18.
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 2094 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
58
now · peak 141
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-11-28 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-11-27 30+ → 40+ up after 28 days in band
- 2025-10-30 40+ → 30+ down after 396 days in band
- 2024-09-29 50+ → 40+ down after 146 days in band
- 2024-05-06 60+ → 50+ down after 107 days in band
- 2024-01-20 50+ → 60+ up after 22 days in band
- 2023-12-29 60+ → 50+ down after 27 days in band
- 2023-12-02 50+ → 60+ up after 17 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Custom Scrollbar 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags D -
Scroll Styler 900+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
Scrollbar 400+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
Nicescrollr 20+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B - W WP Nice Scroll 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
- S sr-scrollbar-wp 10+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
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