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Vertical Menu Widget

by Daniel Iser · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 7 other plugins · 827.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Easily add a vertical menu to your widgetable sidebar. With this plugin you can create a simple/flat menu or a foldout menu.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 54 average across 3,792 Admin & Utilities plugins

100+

Active installs

≈160 estimated

15.4K

Total downloads

since 2011

3.77★

Rating (adjusted)

3.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+41%

45

Downloads · 30d

category median +24%

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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4, 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.

28 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5552 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 · 1,428 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+41% vs prior 30d
-4Downloads · Sep 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

45

now · peak 81

5630d downloads · Sep 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

Vertical Menu Widget · #13605 you OT Flatsome Vertical · #2110 WPB Accordion Menu · #2152 Responsive Vertical · #7868

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.

560per 1k installs · Sep 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

15.2y ago

latest release · v0.9

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.9 · 15.2y 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.

v0.9 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈160

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

Install history · since 2019-11-20 · 1,374 observations

100Installs · Sep 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 · 2 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
0.9
Last updated
15.2y ago
Added
2011-06-07 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.1.4
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ mover
    11.6y ago

    Ничем не отличается от стандартного меню

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  2. ★★★★★ jpinches
    13.3y ago

    Thank you! I have a long list of galleries that I wanted to have appear in the sidebar of the blogroll page and this easy to use plugin reiterated my header menu perfectly! The only thing I could want more is to be able to select which of the menu items would appear. If you’re looking for a simple site navigation menu for the sidebar, this is it!

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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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-02-08 200+ → 100+ down after 266 days in tier
  2. 2025-05-18 300+ → 200+ down after 169 days in tier
  3. 2024-11-30 400+ → 300+ down after 11 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-19 300+ → 400+ up after 25 days in tier
  5. 2024-10-25 400+ → 300+ down after 420 days in tier
  6. 2023-09-01 500+ → 400+ down after 101 days in tier
  7. 2023-05-23 400+ → 500+ up after 6 days in tier
  8. 2023-05-17 500+ → 400+ down after 5 days in tier

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