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Tipso

by Bojan Petkovski · Uncategorized

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Tipso is a simple Wordpress tooltip plugin.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 48/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

-4%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “mobile”, “responsive” and “shortcode” 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.

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48 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 84/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 58 average across 25,739 Uncategorized plugins

100+

Active installs

≈150 estimated

6K

Total downloads

since 2014 · 1.7% still active

4.3/5

Rating

5.0 on wp.org · 8 reviews

-4%

77

Downloads · 30d

category median +6%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.7%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 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

63/100

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 4.2.39, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 8 reviews

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5★
8 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
11.5y ago
Added
2014-12-18 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.9
Tested up to
4.2.39
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.

39 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 4208 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 4/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.2.39; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 62/100

5.0★ over 8 reviews, smoothed to 4.22★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 4208 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 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-4% vs prior 30d
031 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 169 · peaks are release surges

7931 Oct 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 21 Oct 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.

79031 Oct 2026

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 “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 2.9 years 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 4 Oct 2022

10031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ myuill
    5.1y ago

    I can’t remember if I’ve ever left a review. This plugin works in October 2021 perfectly. I tried five other tooltip plugins and each didn’t work or where too much (like automatically making every time the word was mentioned into a tooltip). This gives you an easy-to-use shortcode and enough styling options without having to code.

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  2. ★★★★★ Nuno Sarmento
    6.1y ago

    Perfect, thank you

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  3. ★★★★★ shyuan
    10.0y ago

    After a long search, I finally found this beautiful and working tooltip plugin! Thank you!

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  4. ★★★★★ Joseph
    10.5y ago

    I absolutely love it. Couldn’t find a better one, really. It’s smartly and beautifully designed and it’s very easy to use. Thank you so much Bojan Petkovski for having made this tooltip !

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  5. ★★★★★ chrisvwlc
    11.4y ago

    Thanks! I tried five others and this was the only one I could get to work!

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  6. ★★★★★ master412160
    11.5y ago

    I like it!

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  7. ★★★★★ televizor
    11.6y ago

    Good work!

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  8. ★★★★★ frannny
    11.8y ago

    This works very well and does exactly as it says and in a simple way. I’ve tried other ones which just don’t cut it. Unfortunately it doesn’t work for me as I want to click on the “post title” with it and it can’t do that (and every other one I’ve tried doesn’t either)

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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

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 25 Oct 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 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 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 764 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "mobile", "tinyMCE" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-12-25 200+ → 100+ down

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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Tipso: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/tipso

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