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WordPress.com Stats Smiley Remover

by meagan hanes · Uncategorized

Removes the smiley face created by WordPress.com Stats and JetPack plugins for WordPress by adding a single line of CSS to your header.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 68 average across 3,242 Uncategorized plugins

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-45% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

95

now · peak 211

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

WordPress.com Stats · #10817 WP Statistics · #113 Imsanity · #229 Firelight Lightbox · #258

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 “300+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈390

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
15.01
Last updated
10.5y ago
Added
2009-03-25 · 17 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.2.0
Tested up to
4.1.0
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2025-06-04 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
  2. 2025-06-03 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in band
  3. 2025-06-01 400+ → 300+ down after 3 days in band
  4. 2025-05-29 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
  5. 2025-05-28 400+ → 300+ down after 435 days in band
  6. 2024-03-19 500+ → 400+ down after 233 days in band
  7. 2023-07-30 600+ → 500+ down after 272 days in band
  8. 2022-10-31 700+ → 600+ down after 6 days in band

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WordPress.com Stats Smiley Remover: 300+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-16. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wordpresscom-stats-smiley-remover