WP-Gistpen
by James DiGioia · Uncategorized
A self-hosted alternative to putting your code snippets on Gist.
45 health vs 56 average across 11,758 Uncategorized 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 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2273 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
19
now · peak 108
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2023-10-02 20+ → 10+ down after 30 days in tier
- 2023-09-02 10+ → 20+ up after 75 days in tier
- 2023-06-19 20+ → 10+ down after 68 days in tier
- 2023-04-12 10+ → 20+ up after 35 days in tier
- 2023-03-08 20+ → 10+ down after 153 days in tier
- 2022-10-06 10+ → 20+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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FluentSnippets – High-Performance Code Snippets, Header & Footer Code, Custom CSS & PHP Code Manager 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A -
WP Coder – Insert & Manage Code Snippets 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
CodePen Embed Block 600+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag C -
Gist All-In-One Marketing – Live Chat, Popups, Email 500+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag D
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