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Translation Detector

by Guillaume DIARD · Multilingual

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Translation detector display a simple button to navigate to a post translation created with polylang.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 64 average across 285 Multilingual plugins

20+

Active installs

≈26 estimated

4.3K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.85★

Rating (adjusted)

3.7★ raw · 3 reviews

+63%

31

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 6/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3794 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+63% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

31

now · peak 63

3130d 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

Translation Detector · #26247 you Loco Translate · #36 Translate WordPress · #71 Polylang · #76

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.7Stars · 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.

1.6Kper 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

10.4y ago

latest release · v1.3.5

9

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.5 · 10.4y ago1.3.4 · 11.2y ago1.3.3 · 11.2y ago1.3.2 · 11.4y ago1.3.1 · 11.4y ago1.3 · 11.5y ago1.2 · 11.5y ago1.1 · 11.6y ago1.0 · 11.6y 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.

v1.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈26

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

Install history · since 2015-09-19 · 1,382 observations

20Installs · 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.

Ratings · 3 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.3.5
Last updated
10.4y ago
Added
2015-01-28 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.7
Tested up to
4.5.33
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ gautamarya
    10.1y ago

    Horror….. My heart was almost gone when I read following message. Why??? Is it just because I press the “Install Plugin” button? You can’t UPDATE ANYTHING WITHOUT USERS CONSENT, No matter what. I was almost embarrased before my client. The plugin is installed ... The plugin Translation Detector 1.3.5 has been successfully installed. Activate this plugin | Back to plug-in installation Some of your translations need to be updated. Wait from a few seconds while we update it. Update translations for Akismet (en_US) ... The translation has been updated successfully. Update translations for Contact Form 7 (en_US) ... The translation has been updated successfully. Update translations for WooCommerce (en_US) ... The translation has been updated successfully. Update translations for WordPress Importer (en_US) ... The translation has been updated successfully. Update Translations for Twenty Fifteen (en_US) ... The translation has been updated successfully. Update Translations for Twenty Fourteen (en_US) ... The translation has been updated successfully. Update Translations for Twenty Sixteen (en_US) ... The translation has been updated successfully.

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  2. ★★★★★ ecdltf
    11.2y ago

    A perfect addition for Polylang, especially for sites where only some posts have a translation. For example, if you have a site that consists mainly of English posts, but with some posts translated to other languages, the visitor can comfortably browse the English site and he sees immediately when a post has a translation to his language.

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  3. ★★★★★ Brice Capobianco
    11.5y ago

    Nicely formatted and lightweight, this plugin does exactly what it promises. It works straight out of the box and has some usefull visual options. Good job. PS: To translate the sentence in the Polylang translation page, go directly to the last page!

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Behavioral tests

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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. 2026-04-22 30+ → 20+ down after 10 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-12 20+ → 30+ up after 72 days in tier
  3. 2026-01-30 30+ → 20+ down after 30 days in tier
  4. 2025-12-31 20+ → 30+ up after 70 days in tier
  5. 2025-10-22 30+ → 20+ down after 68 days in tier
  6. 2025-08-15 20+ → 30+ up after 91 days in tier
  7. 2025-05-16 30+ → 20+ down after 20 days in tier
  8. 2025-04-26 20+ → 30+ up after 34 days in tier

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