Trigger Scheduled Events
by Scott Nelle · Booking & Events
Trigger any scheduled event now instead of waiting until WP cron tells it to run. Handy for debugging.
45 health vs 76 average across 286 Booking & Events plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4292 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
19
now · peak 65
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,364 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-10-04 30+ → 20+ down after 198 days in band
- 2025-03-20 20+ → 30+ up after 70 days in band
- 2025-01-09 30+ → 20+ down after 662 days in band
- 2023-03-19 40+ → 30+ down after 2 days in band
- 2023-03-17 30+ → 40+ up after 17 days in band
- 2023-02-28 40+ → 30+ down after 18 days in band
- 2023-02-10 30+ → 40+ up
Competes with
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Transients Manager 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag C
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