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User Status Shortcode

by Reed Wendorf · Login & Users

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Easily allows you to display different content to your visitors that are logged in than those that are logged out via shortcode.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 47/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

-16%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “inbound”, “login” and “logout” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

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47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 61 average across 2,203 Login & Users plugins

100+

Active installs

≈150 estimated

10.1K

Total downloads

since 2013 · 1.0% still active

4.2/5

Rating

5.0 on wp.org · 5 reviews

-16%

96

Downloads · 30d

category median +11%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.0%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 10.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Login & Users plugin keeps 0.7%, across 1,476 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Login & Users plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

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 4.4.34, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 5 reviews

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5★
5 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.1.1
Last updated
10.8y ago
Added
2013-05-12 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.4.34
Requires PHP
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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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3936 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 5/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.4.34; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 57/100

5.0★ over 5 reviews, smoothed to 4.18★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3936 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-16% vs prior 30d
331 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 3.6K · peaks are release surges

8831 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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.

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.

88031 Oct 2026

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.

v0.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 16 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 22 Jan 2016

10031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Travis Northcutt
    10.2y ago

    Works perfectly well. Nice and simple.

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  2. ★★★★★ trevorNanders
    10.7y ago

    Perfect. So simple and the shortcodes are so simply descriptive that they are easy to remember on the fly. Thanks

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  3. ★★★★★ elektroinside
    12.9y ago

    Very handy little plugin! Works extremely well! Thank you!

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  4. ★★★★★ cwendt01
    13.0y ago

    What more can I say? The plugin is straightforward and does just what it says. Worked for me perfectly. Thank you. 🙂

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  5. ★★★★★ cookiecutter
    13.5y ago

    This plugin does just what it says; nothing complicated about it. Just download, activate and start using the shortcode. Great first version (and plugin). Keep up the good work.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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

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

3 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Easily allows you to display different content to your visitors that are logged in than those that are logg..."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! 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 4 headings and 3 lists.
  • ! Enough to quote 640 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "login", "logout" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-06-28 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
  2. 2025-06-25 100+ → 200+ up after 10 days in tier
  3. 2025-06-15 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in tier
  4. 2025-06-12 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2025-06-10 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2025-06-08 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-06-07 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-06-05 100+ → 200+ up after 2 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).

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