Torknado Page Excerpt
by Tyler Tork · Search
Pages, like Posts, can have an Excerpt field to override the automatic "first 55 words" excerpt. However, many themes don't enable edit …
41 health vs 60 average across 395 Search plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.13.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1609 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
25
now · peak 63
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-12-30 40+ → 30+ down after 17 days in band
- 2024-12-13 30+ → 40+ up after 13 days in band
- 2024-11-30 40+ → 30+ down after 6 days in band
- 2024-11-24 30+ → 40+ up after 414 days in band
- 2023-10-07 20+ → 30+ up after 230 days in band
- 2023-02-19 10+ → 20+ up after 7 days in band
- 2023-02-12 20+ → 10+ down after 4 days in band
- 2023-02-08 10+ → 20+ up after 8 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Search & Replace 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag C -
String locator 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag C -
Ivory Search – WordPress Search Plugin 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A
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