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Toolbar Publish Button

by webbistro · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 1 other plugin · 65K+ installs across the portfolio →

Scroll less in WordPress admin area! A small UX improvement will keep Publish button within reach and retain the scrollbar position after saving.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
51 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 92/100
Support 70/100

51 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

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.

53 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 89/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1827 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+31% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

449

now · peak 585

45030d 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

Toolbar Publish Butt · #3015 you All In One Login · #652 Reveal IDs · #848 Catch IDs · #1282

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · Aug 26

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.

90per 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

5.0y ago

latest release · v1.8

31

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.8 · 5.0y ago1.7.1 · 5.5y ago1.7 · 5.9y ago1.6.2 · 8.0y ago1.6.1 · 8.0y ago1.6 · 8.6y ago1.5.2 · 9.7y ago1.5.1 · 9.9y ago1.5 · 9.9y ago1.4.3 · 10.9y ago1.4.2 · 10.9y ago1.4.1 · 10.9y ago1.4 · 10.9y ago1.3 · 11.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 89% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.8 89%
v1.6 6.4%
Older / other versions 4.7%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “5K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
5K–6K ≈5.4K

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

Install history · since 2015-08-14 · 1,435 observations

5KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
1.8
Last updated
5.0y ago
Added
2013-03-19 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. nikvasko
    1.6y ago

    Very good!

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  2. imincognito
    4.6y ago

    As with all products from wpuxsolutions, this is a neat little tool. Works like advertised…

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  3. carnie23
    6.1y ago

    Hi All, Simple powerful plugin! The productivity improvement this plugin provides is enormous! Seems like a small improvement but if you where to add the time saved I think you’d be very surprised. While developing I publish often and having the page reload at the same spot I was working saves so much time. 😉 Before this plugin, each time publishing the page would reload at its default and lose the spot where I was working. I’d have to dive back down into the page scrolling down to the fields I was working on. Very annoying! Time consuming! Honestly, this should be base WP functionality. Thanks again for the plugin 😉

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  4. wpfan10
    6.2y ago

    Very useful plugin. I love it. save time This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by wpfan10.

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  5. bbr13
    6.3y ago

    Super plugin !

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  6. Alvaro Gois dos Santos
    7.5y ago

    This is a time saver for a lot of editing pages, including options. I use it on all the sites. Thank you for sharing this simple and so useful tool.

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  7. Laurent OneChai
    7.7y ago

    When writing a post, having to scroll back to tha save button is a waste a time. No more with this plugin.

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  8. rob Nieuwenhuizen
    8.0y ago

    Simple, effective!

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.8 Release Date – August 28, 2021 Improvements Code cleanup and improvements for better performance Better colorization for buttons A new option was added to control whether to expand ACF fields after saving or not 1.8
  2. Version 1.7.1 Release Date – March 09, 2021 Compatibility WordPress 5.7 compatibility ensured 1.7.1
  3. Version 1.7 Release Date – October 14, 2020 Improvements ACF Field Groups screen compatibility improved New option: Move buttons to the right side of the Toolbar The buttons are on the colored background from the initial plugin acti 1.7
  4. Version 1.6.2 Release Date – August 29, 2018 Bugfixes Conflict with ACF scripts fixed 1.6.2
  5. Version 1.6.1 Release Date – August 28, 2018 Improvements Compatibility with the latest ACF versions ensured 1.6.1
  6. Version 1.6 Release Date – February 2, 2017 Improvements “Save Draft” and “Preview” buttons are now optional Minor code improvements Bugfixes Minor bugs fixed 1.6

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 3 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Russian 100%
Ukrainian 100%
Swedish 75%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-24 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-23 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-05-22 6K+ → 5K+ down after 3 days in tier
  4. 2026-05-19 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-05-18 6K+ → 5K+ down after 381 days in tier
  6. 2025-05-02 7K+ → 6K+ down after 246 days in tier
  7. 2024-08-29 8K+ → 7K+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-08-28 7K+ → 8K+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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