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There Can Be Only One

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Ensures that there is only one published sticky post on the site at any given time.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins

40+

Active installs

≈47 estimated

3.1K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+122%

40

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, 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.

29 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4205 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+122% vs prior 30d
5Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

40

now · peak 77

4230d downloads · Aug 26

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

There Can Be Only On · #21209 you Expire Sticky Posts · #6427 GenerateBlocks · #215 Post Duplicator · #221

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.

1.1Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

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

11.5y ago

latest release · v1.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0 · 11.5y ago

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
40–50 ≈47

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

At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 381 days.

Install history · since 2015-04-21 · 1,383 observations

40Installs · 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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
11.5y ago
Added
2015-02-13 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.1.42
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Jeffro
    11.5y ago

    Nothing to configure, it just works.

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  2. ★★★★★ Jeffro
    11.5y ago

    I’m using WordPress 4.2 Alpha on a test site and I noticed that it doesn’t remove the sticky flag on previous posts. I set a post to be sticky which made it appear as the first post on the page. Then I made a second post a sticky and it showed up above the first without removing the flag on the first sticky post. Considering 4.2 is the next version aimed for an April release, it would be great if you could confirm this and possibly fix it 🙂

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ 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

  1. 2026-08-31 50+ → 40+ down after 18 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-13 40+ → 50+ up after 48 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-26 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-06-25 40+ → 50+ up after 8 days in tier
  5. 2026-06-17 50+ → 40+ down after 36 days in tier
  6. 2026-05-12 40+ → 50+ up after 41 days in tier
  7. 2026-04-01 50+ → 40+ down after 4 days in tier
  8. 2026-03-28 40+ → 50+ up after 14 days in tier

Competes with

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