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Update Comment Count

by Dinesh Pilani · Uncategorized

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A Simple plugin to Update Comment Count

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 66 average across 3,770 Uncategorized plugins

40+

Active installs

≈47 estimated

2.6K

Total downloads

since 2019

4.22★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 5 reviews

-48%

53

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.12.

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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 8/100
WP compatibility 41/100
Rating quality 57/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1500 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-48% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

53

now · peak 150

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈47

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

At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 1100 days.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations

Ratings · 5 reviews

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5★
5 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.3
Last updated
4.1y ago
Added
2019-11-15 · 6 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
6.0.12
Requires PHP
5.6
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Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-03-26 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in band
  2. 2026-03-25 40+ → 30+ down after 9 days in band
  3. 2026-03-16 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
  4. 2026-03-14 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in band
  5. 2026-03-09 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in band
  6. 2026-03-08 40+ → 30+ down after 3 days in band
  7. 2026-03-05 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in band
  8. 2026-03-02 40+ → 30+ down after 6 days in band

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