Wield Menu
by alpipego · Admin & Utilities
Make long and complex Navigation Menus wieldable
47 health vs 54 average across 2,150 Admin & Utilities 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.13.
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 1831 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
27
now · peak 78
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
At the current install trend, crossing 30+ in roughly 797 days.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-10 10+ → 20+ up after 5 days in band
- 2026-03-05 20+ → 10+ down after 15 days in band
- 2026-02-18 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-17 20+ → 10+ down after 19 days in band
- 2026-01-29 10+ → 20+ up after 4 days in band
- 2026-01-25 20+ → 10+ down after 8 days in band
- 2026-01-17 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-01-16 20+ → 10+ down after 13 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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User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility 80K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Nav Menu Roles 70K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Shortcode in Menus 50K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Advanced Sidebar Menu 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
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