Wide Banner
by guihom · Uncategorized
Display a banner with or without link at the top of your website.
45 health vs 63 average across 4,601 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.0.
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 2259 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
36
now · peak 80
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 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-04-15 50+ → 40+ down after 22 days in band
- 2026-03-24 40+ → 50+ up after 56 days in band
- 2026-01-27 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-01-26 40+ → 50+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-01-23 50+ → 40+ down after 155 days in band
- 2025-08-21 60+ → 50+ down after 268 days in band
- 2024-11-26 70+ → 60+ down after 212 days in band
- 2024-04-28 80+ → 70+ down after 128 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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Simple Banner – Easily add multiple Banners/Bars/Notifications/Announcements to the top or bottom of your website 50K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Top Bar 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Easy Notification Bar 9K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
CookieAdmin – Cookie Consent Banner 400K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A -
Image Widget 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Manage Notification E-mails 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/wide-banner" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Wide Banner — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Wide Banner: 40+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wide-banner