Two Bright Lights Publishing Tool

by jimboliang · Uncategorized

Two Bright Lights Publishing Tool allows you to automatically mark your submission as published upon publishing your post in WordPress.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

How scoring works →

41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 62 average across 4,916 Uncategorized plugins

10+

Active installs

≈19 estimated

1.7K

Total downloads

since 2017

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-58%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, 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.

33 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100

WP compatibility 8/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2514 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-07 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-58% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 143

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

10–20 ≈19

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

Install history · since 2022-10-06 · 1,380 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 1.2
Last updated: 6.9y ago
Added: 2017-09-30 · 8 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 4.6
Tested up to: 4.7.33
Requires PHP: —

Changelog ↗Support forum ↗Reviews ↗Advanced stats ↗

Growth timeline

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

2023-05-27 20+ → 10+ down

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Two Bright Lights Publishing Tool: 10+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/tbl-publish-tools