WP Dash Message
by Aleksandar Arsovski · Admin & Utilities
Add a welcome message dashboard widget and remove any WordPress dashboard widgets with this plugin.
45 health vs 62 average across 953 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.3.2, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 5321 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
32
now · peak 73
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,370 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-03 300+ → 200+ down after 444 days in band
- 2025-02-13 400+ → 300+ down after 558 days in band
- 2023-08-05 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-08-04 400+ → 500+ up after 32 days in band
- 2023-07-03 500+ → 400+ down after 263 days in band
- 2022-10-13 600+ → 500+ down after 6 days in band
- 2022-10-07 500+ → 600+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Dashboard Welcome for Elementor 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B - D Dashboard Notepad 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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Dashboard Widgets Suite 4K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Dashboard Columns 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B - C Custom Dashboard Help Widget 900+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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Admin Dashboard Last Edits 800+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
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