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Weather Widget by Calcatraz

by Dan Mossop · Admin & Utilities

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A simple, compact weather widget which displays current conditions and 3-day forecast for the selected location.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

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

40+

Active installs

≈47 estimated

10.1K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+173%

60

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41, 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.

29 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4524 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+173% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

60

now · peak 77

6030d downloads · Aug 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

Weather Widget by Ca · #21267 you wp-forecast · #3304 Widgets for Google R · #68 Blocksy Companion · #165

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.

1.5Kper 1k installs · Aug 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

12.4y ago

latest release · v1.3.7

12

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.7 · 12.4y ago1.3.6 · 12.4y ago1.3.5 · 12.4y ago1.3.3 · 12.5y ago1.3.2 · 12.6y ago1.3.1 · 12.6y ago1.3 · 12.6y ago1.2.2 · 12.7y ago1.2.1 · 12.7y ago1.2 · 12.7y ago1.1 · 12.7y ago1.0 · 12.7y 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.

v1.3 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈47

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

Install history · since 2020-10-25 · 1,382 observations

40Installs · Aug 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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.3.7
Last updated
12.4y ago
Added
2013-12-11 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.7.41
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ fishpat
    12.5y ago

    nice piece of work

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  2. ★★★★★ sucrelife
    12.7y ago

    Dan designed the widget for our site, SucreLife.com, and it fits our needs perfectly. It takes up very little room in the sidebar which is great as it means the other widgets in our sidebar are more prominent. It also looks good and required very little setup 🙂

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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. 2026-05-17 50+ → 40+ down after 241 days in tier
  2. 2025-09-18 60+ → 50+ down after 106 days in tier
  3. 2025-06-04 70+ → 60+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2025-06-02 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-06-01 70+ → 60+ down after 5 days in tier
  6. 2025-05-27 60+ → 70+ up after 16 days in tier
  7. 2025-05-11 70+ → 60+ down after 233 days in tier
  8. 2024-09-20 80+ → 70+ down after 3 days in tier

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