Visual Crossing Weather Forecast – Real-Time Weather & Forecast Widget
by srhelwig · Admin & Utilities
Display professional, real-time weather forecasts and conditions from Visual Crossing Weather API anywhere on your WordPress website.
60 health vs 56 average across 1,661 Admin & Utilities plugins
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.
Well optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 533 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
31
now · peak 187
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 “50+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 60+ in roughly 403 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-06 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-06-05 50+ → 40+ down after 111 days in band
- 2026-02-14 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-13 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-12 40+ → 50+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-02-10 50+ → 40+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-02-08 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-07 50+ → 40+ down after 4 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Location Weather – WordPress Weather Forecast, Air Quality & Weather Widget 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A -
Free Weather 300+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags C -
Weather Atlas Widget 8K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags C - M My Weather 200+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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WeatherBot Weather Widget 30+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
wp-forecast 5K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
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