Plugin Pulse
← Pulse
W

WP Customizer

by vicchi · Uncategorized

Also makes 3 other plugins · 70+ installs across the portfolio →

Easily load site specific functions, scripts and CSS files into your site without editing your theme's functions.php or other source files.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.30, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 9/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3217 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+89% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

36

now · peak 54

3630d 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

WP Customizer · #26041 you MS Custom Login · #7409 Header and Footer Sc · #246 Custom Product Tabs · #535

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.

1.8Kper 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

8.8y ago

latest release · v1.0.2

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.2 · 8.8y ago1.0.1 · 13.0y ago1.0.0 · 13.2y 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈29

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

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

Details

Version
1.0.2
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2013-06-05 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
4.8
Tested up to
4.8.30
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. Venutius
    9.9y ago

    It’s been three years since this was last updated and it’s still going strong, I really hope the author will keep up its development. I use this plugin to change all kinds of CSS features that otherwise I’d have no clue how to change, the interface is simple yet incredibly powerfull, if it stops working I@ll be in big trouble!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. jesse9212
    13.2y ago

    Everything worked great across all blogs on my multisite installation. It would be nice if you could use the following option: – choose relative directory in active theme (Ie. wp-content/themes/%themename%/functions/ As of right now you have to use a folder outside of the theme directory unless you wish to manually go into this plugins’ settings and change the directory since not all themes will have the same name.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

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. 2025-09-24 30+ → 20+ down after 348 days in tier
  2. 2024-10-11 40+ → 30+ down after 230 days in tier
  3. 2024-02-24 50+ → 40+ down after 124 days in tier
  4. 2023-10-23 60+ → 50+ down after 28 days in tier
  5. 2023-09-25 70+ → 60+ down after 27 days in tier
  6. 2023-08-29 60+ → 70+ up after 13 days in tier
  7. 2023-08-16 70+ → 60+ down after 104 days in tier
  8. 2023-05-04 60+ → 70+ up after 36 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

Compare head to head →

Embed this report card

Drop a live Pulse card for WP Customizer into a readme, a review or a deck. It updates itself.

<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/wp-customizer" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="WP Customizer — Plugin Pulse"></iframe>
Preview card ↗

WP Customizer: 20+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-customizer