VKontakte Share Button
by jackyfox · Social
Plugin allows you to add fully customizable share button of VKontakte social network.
41 health vs 55 average across 975 Social 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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5, 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 5800 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
23
now · peak 81
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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-02-05 50+ → 40+ down after 321 days in tier
- 2025-03-21 60+ → 50+ down after 129 days in tier
- 2024-11-12 70+ → 60+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2024-11-05 60+ → 70+ up after 41 days in tier
- 2024-09-25 70+ → 60+ down after 195 days in tier
- 2024-03-14 80+ → 70+ down after 224 days in tier
- 2023-08-03 90+ → 80+ down after 85 days in tier
- 2023-05-10 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Meks Easy Social Share 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags C -
AddToAny Share Buttons 300K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Ocean Social Sharing 60K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
Buttonizer – Social Media Share Buttons, Social Icons, & Social Feeds 40K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Genesis Simple Share 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/vkontakte-share-button" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="VKontakte Share Button — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> VKontakte Share Button: 40+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/vkontakte-share-button