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Wield Menu

by alpipego · Admin & Utilities

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Make long and complex Navigation Menus wieldable

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

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

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

2.9K

Total downloads

since 2016

4.17★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 4 reviews

+3%

34

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.15.

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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1876 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+3% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

34

now · peak 78

3430d 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

Wield Menu · #26396 you Purify Menus · #10858 Menu Icons by Themei · #305 User Menus · #539

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.

1.7Kper 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

2.8y ago

latest release · v1.2.2

8

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.2 · 2.8y ago1.2.1 · 5.1y ago1.2.0 · 7.3y ago1.1.2 · 7.3y ago1.1.1 · 7.8y ago1.1.0 · 8.8y ago1.0.1 · 9.7y ago1.0.0 · 9.7y 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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

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

At the current install trend, crossing 30+ in roughly 683 days.

Install history · since 2017-07-08 · 1,385 observations

20Installs · 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.

Ratings · 4 reviews

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5★
4 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.2.1
Last updated
5.1y ago
Added
2016-12-09 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.5
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Enterprise Branding
    6.3y ago

    I’ve been using this plugin for a little while and just thought I would leave a review. Still works well with the latest WordPress version. Thanks!

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  2. ★★★★★ wellbeingtips
    8.8y ago

    I had this problem when working on themes demo as they have all possible page in the menu. Thanks!

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  3. ★★★★★ invisiblue
    9.5y ago

    This plugin does exactly what it claims. I use this in conjunction with Ubermenu.. Ubermenu actually sells a $10 extension that does this same exact thing.. but this plugin does it for free! Thank you mr dev, sir.

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  4. ★★★★★ jvwx
    9.6y ago

    Was about to give up hope but tried one more search and luckily found your plugin to manage a rather long and complex menu… THANK YOU!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.7.2

✓ 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. 2026-03-10 10+ → 20+ up after 5 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-05 20+ → 10+ down after 15 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-18 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-02-17 20+ → 10+ down after 19 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-29 10+ → 20+ up after 4 days in tier
  6. 2026-01-25 20+ → 10+ down after 8 days in tier
  7. 2026-01-17 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2026-01-16 20+ → 10+ down after 13 days in tier

Competes with

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