Top-Down Scroll – Customizable Scroll to Top Button
by Nitya Saha · Uncategorized
Also makes 2 other plugins · 390+ installs across the portfolio →
Add a scroll to top button and an optional scroll to bottom button to any WordPress theme. Custom icon, color, size and position.
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Health
B 83/100
Few reviews
Active installs
60+
≈60 estimated
Momentum
+34%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “back to top”, “smooth scroll” and “go to top” for “down”, “scroll to bottom” and “custom scroll”. “back to top” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #23. “down” sits at #8 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “smooth scroll” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #19. “scroll to bottom” sits at #10 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “go to top” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #15. “custom scroll” sits at #20 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
83 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.3%
of downloads still active
At least 60 of 2.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,765 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.
This plugin shipped 4 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 21 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
48
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.4
Velocity
places per keyword, 26d
39%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 26d
+0.8
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| down | #8 | #23 | 0 |
| scroll to top button your tag | #12 | #21 | up 1 |
| scroll to bottom | #10 | #21 | 0 |
| scroll to top your tag | #14 | #21 | 0 |
| go to top your tag | #15 | #21 | up 1 |
| go down | #6 | #22 | 0 |
| smooth scroll your tag | #19 | #22 | 0 |
| scroll top | #13 | #21 | 0 |
| to top | #24 | #23 | down 2 |
| back to top your tag | #23 | #22 | down 2 |
| scroll back to top | #16 | #22 | down 1 |
| smooth scroll to top | #16 | #21 | 0 |
| go top | #18 | #22 | 0 |
| custom scroll | #20 | #23 | up 2 |
| scroll top button | #12 | #21 | up 4 |
| back to top button | #21 | #23 | 0 |
| text scroll | #23 | #23 | — |
| top scroll | #13 | #21 | up 1 |
| bottom to top | #23 | #23 | down 1 |
| wp scroll top | #16 | #24 | up 3 |
38 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 11 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Swap “back to top”, “smooth scroll” and “go to top” for “down”, “scroll to bottom” and “custom scroll”. “back to top” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #23. “down” sits at #8 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “smooth scroll” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #19. “scroll to bottom” sits at #10 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “go to top” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #15. “custom scroll” sits at #20 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “go to top”. #15 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- One page off on “scroll to top”. #14 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- One page off on “scroll to top button”. #12 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 1 Jul 2024 · 852 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 233 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #19,100 to #20,000, alongside the other plugins at 60+ 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.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
4
releases in the last 12 months
21d ago
latest release · v1.3.7 · 10 Oct 2026
7
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 “60+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 60.
At the current install trend, crossing 70+ in roughly 159 days.
Install history since 30 Jun 2024
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0
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
6 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Add a scroll to top button and an optional scroll to bottom button to any WordPress theme. Custom icon, col..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 13 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 13 of 13 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 2 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,355 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "go-to-top" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-28 50+ → 60+ up after 8 days in tier
- 2026-10-20 60+ → 50+ down after 50 days in tier
- 2026-08-31 50+ → 60+ up after 24 days in tier
- 2026-08-07 60+ → 50+ down after 66 days in tier
- 2026-06-02 50+ → 60+ up after 13 days in tier
- 2026-05-20 40+ → 50+ up after 24 days in tier
- 2026-04-26 30+ → 40+ up after 13 days in tier
- 2026-04-13 40+ → 30+ down after 3 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).
- W WP-Smooth-Scroll 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 4 shared tags D
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Easy Back To Top Button — installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags -
WPFront Scroll Top 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A -
jQuery Smooth Scroll 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags B -
MakeITeasy Back To Top 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B -
Scroll To Top 300+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags B
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