Text Expander
by hedge · Uncategorized
Allows you to define areas of text that expand/collapse when clicked.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
600+
≈650 estimated
Momentum
+21%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “content” and “posts” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
45 health vs 58 average across 25,763 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.6%
of downloads still active
At least 600 of 22.9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,773 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, well behind 6.8.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 4152 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.2.39; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
2 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 4152 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| content your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| posts your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “content” and “posts” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 266 · peaks are release surges
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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
15.8y ago
latest release · v0.3 · 24 Jan 2011
4
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “600+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 11 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 22 Jun 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ FrictionNL13.8y ago
It works like a charm, easy to use shortcode and beautiful jquery animation.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ richarduk13.9y ago
Sweeet! How everyone’s missed this is beyond me. Tested with WordPress 3.5 and FireFox 17.01, Chrome Version 23.0.1271.97 m, Internet Explorer 6, Opera 11.64 and Safar 5.1.4 on Dec 15th 2012 – and it worked on ALL of them! Wow! For the record, documentation and contextual help isn’t too good, and support forum appears to have been abandoned. How to make it work? In theory there’s a little downwards arrow to the right of the media uploader button which you’re meant to press, and this triggers a popup, but content typed into this popup box (there are no formatting options displayed) comes out as a string, so forget that. What you do instead – and it’s no great hardship – is type ` [EXPAND whatever] <[EXPAND] ` around the formatted text that you want to slide down. If that doesn’t come out right in this post, let me reiterate: you put standard shortcode containing the word EXPAND around the desired formatted text. The opening EXPAND is followed by any characters at all, which will act as an identifier for that block of formatted text. This way you can have multiple sliders on one page. So: EXPAND whatever My list will be revealed EXPAND EXPAND somethingelse My pictures will be revealed EXPAND where I’ve left out the opening and closing shortcode tags. Lovely plugin! Hope someone takes it over if it’s been abandoned!
Read on wp.org ↗
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
1 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Allows you to define areas of text that expand/collapse when clicked."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 733 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 2 tags appear in the text ("content", "posts" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-12-03 700+ → 600+ down after 273 days in tier
- 2025-03-05 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-03-04 700+ → 800+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2025-02-28 800+ → 700+ down after 16 days in tier
- 2025-02-12 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-02-11 800+ → 700+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2025-02-09 700+ → 800+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-02-07 800+ → 700+ down after 7 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Post Duplicator 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
WP Popular Posts 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
YARPP – Yet Another Related Posts Plugin 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag C
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