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WP Favicon

by jmparis · Uncategorized

Simply include a favicon.ico and a favicon.gif in your active theme.

Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 45/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

400+

≈470 estimated

Momentum

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no download trend yet

Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 0/100. Last updated 3631 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.0%

of downloads still active

At least 400 of 39.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,766 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Removal-risk signals

51/100

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • No tested-up-to version. The listing declares no "Tested up to" version.

Details

Version
0.1
Last updated
9.9y ago
Added
2009-07-24 · 17 yrs old
Requires WP
—
Tested up to
—
Requires PHP
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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.

24 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3631 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 32/100

No "Tested up to" declared, treated as a major version behind

Rating quality 51/100

5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 20/100

0 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3631 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 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

— vs prior 30d
031 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 113 · peaks are release surges

10731 Oct 2026

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

9.2K31 Oct 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

4531 Oct 2026

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.

26831 Oct 2026

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

17.2y ago

latest release · v0.1 · 9 Aug 2009

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

0.1 · 9 Aug 2009

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.

v0.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈470

Crossed into this band 3 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 73% of the way through.

Install history since 11 Dec 2019

40031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Anonymous User 11471976
    13.8y ago

    Plugin works without problems! Thanks!

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

0 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 68 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ! Tags match the text No tags set.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-25 500+ → 400+ down after 333 days in tier
  2. 2025-08-26 600+ → 500+ down after 16 days in tier
  3. 2025-08-10 500+ → 600+ up after 3 days in tier
  4. 2025-08-07 600+ → 500+ down after 382 days in tier
  5. 2024-07-21 700+ → 600+ down after 4 days in tier
  6. 2024-07-17 600+ → 700+ up after 6 days in tier
  7. 2024-07-11 700+ → 600+ down after 204 days in tier
  8. 2023-12-20 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier

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WP Favicon: 400+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-favicon

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