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The Hack Repair Guy's Admin Login Notifier

by The Hack Repair Guy · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 1 other plugin · 400+ installs across the portfolio →

The Hack Repair Guy's Admin Login Notifier notifies you the moment an Administrator user logs into your WordPress dashboard.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 47/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

+50%

low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month

Biggest opportunity: “admin email”, “admin login” and “email notification” 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.

How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 5,904 Admin & Utilities plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

2.6%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 3.8K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,194 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities 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

63/100

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 5.5.24, well behind 7.1.

Details

Version
2.0.4
Last updated
6.2y ago
Added
2016-01-04 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
4.2
Tested up to
5.5.24
Requires PHP
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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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 2/100

Updated 2266 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 15/100

Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24; the current branch is 7.1

Rating quality 57/100

5.0★ over 5 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.2★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 2266 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+50% low volume vs prior 30d
112 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 93 · peaks are release surges

932 Nov 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.

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.

9302 Nov 2026

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

6.2y ago

latest release · v2.0.4 · 20 Aug 2020

6

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.0.4 · 20 Aug 20202.0.2 · 30 Mar 20172.0.1 · 15 Jan 20162.0.0 · 9 Jan 20161.0.5 · 5 Jan 20161.0.0 · 5 Jan 2016

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.

v2.0 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 23 months ago; the previous band took 16 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 24 Dec 2016

1002 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Corey Kretsinger
    3.1y ago

    Received a notification from The Hack Repair Guy’s Admin Login Notifier today that I had logged into a client website. That was news to me so I immediately took steps to secure the site. While I’m not sure just how they got in, I am sure that this plugin helped prevent damage since I was able to log the malicious entity out and go to work changing all of the credentials. Thanks again, Jim!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ jrxpress
    5.2y ago

    This plugin is simple and perfect to help with the security of all my WordPress-based websites. It helps me to keep all the websites running WordPress secure against any unknown login and it sends me an email each time someone connects to the admin panel of my WordPress websites, making it easy to investigate any unknown login access. I’ve been using this amazing WordPress plugin for a while and I super recommend it if you are looking for something simple and easy to use. Thanks to that simple plugin, It’s easy to find out when someone login into the wp-admin, since this plugin will simply send an email alert to anyone authorized and properly configured into the settings to receive a warning alert by email each time anyone successfully logs in to the WordPress admin panel. All webmasters know how important is to keep the WordPress system up to date as the maintenance routine for the security and stability of the applied theme, and the importance to keep all the used plugins properly updated to keep the website secure and stable. Now it’s easy to find out all successful login access from any editor, user, and/or admin accounts into the wp-admin, making it easy to investigate any possible issue situation related to any unknown access that could affect the security and stability of a secure running website running under WordPress system.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ reardeninc
    9.6y ago

    Knowing when an admin user logs into your site is critical to security and this plugin does it perfectly. I handle security professionally for many sites and while other plugins may have this function as a feature, there are many times all the other features of those plugins cause problems or the plugin itself cannot be used. If you host with WPEngine or other WordPress dedicated hosting providers you will know what I am talking about. Use this instead.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ nathaningram
    10.7y ago

    Very useful plugin. In addition to the hack use case, it could also be helpful to send you an alert if you have given your clients a “just in case” Admin user.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ tcolling
    10.8y ago

    I just installed it and tested it. It worked very well and I can see a lot of uses for this. Thanks! This plugin is a great tool for those who manage sites, whether for themselves of for others.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 47 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Danish 100%
Japanese 26%
Portuguese (Portugal) 26%
Russian 26%
Basque 20%
English (Australia) 20%
Romanian 20%
Albanian 13%
Croatian 13%
Czech 13%
Dutch 13%
English (Canada) 13%
English (New Zealand) 13%
English (UK) 13%
Finnish 13%
French (France) 13%
German 13%
German (Formal) 13%
Greek 13%
Hindi 13%
Italian 13%
Korean 13%
Lithuanian 13%
Polish 13%

Plus 23 more locales with partial translations.

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.

This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

3 of 8 pass · checked 2 Nov 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 5 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 5 of 5 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! 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 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 866 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "admin email", "email notification" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-12-21 200+ → 100+ down after 480 days in tier
  2. 2023-08-29 300+ → 200+ down after 887 days in tier
  3. 2021-03-25 100+ → 300+ up

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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The Hack Repair Guy's Admin Login Notifier: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/the-hack-repair-guys-admin-login-notifier

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