WP Current Subcategories

by Francesco Sganga · Admin & Utilities

After installing WP Current Subcategories go to Widget Areas and add WP Current Subcategories widget: * Title - Choose the Title of Widget Section * P …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 53 average across 2,895 Admin & Utilities plugins

30+

Active installs

≈39 estimated

1.3K

Total downloads

since 2019

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-51%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.24, 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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100

WP compatibility 15/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2481 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-51% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 51

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

WP Current Subcatego · #22935 Widgets for Google R · #69 Blocksy Companion · #166 Black Studio TinyMCE · #234

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

tracked estimate

30–40 ≈39

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,371 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0.1
Last updated: 6.8y ago
Added: 2019-09-30 · 6 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 5.1
Tested up to: 5.2.24
Requires PHP: 5.6

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Growth timeline

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

2024-04-09 20+ → 30+ up after 25 days in tier
2024-03-15 30+ → 20+ down after 16 days in tier
2024-02-28 20+ → 30+ up after 495 days in tier
2022-10-21 10+ → 20+ up

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