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WP-HideRefer

by ulfben · Uncategorized

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WP-HideRefer adds proxies to your outgoing links, keeping your site private!

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

10+

Active installs

≈19 estimated

3.3K

Total downloads

since 2012

3.92★

Rating (adjusted)

4.0★ raw · 4 reviews

+45%

32

Downloads · 30d

category median +20%

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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.1.24, 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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 13/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2718 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-06 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+45% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

32

now · peak 56

3230d downloads · Sep 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-HideRefer · #33640 you WP Migrate DB Anonym · #10996 Contact Form 7 · #1197 Input Mask For Eleme · #1403

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4Stars · Sep 26

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.

3.2Kper 1k installs · Sep 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

7.4y ago

latest release · v1.12

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.12 · 7.4y ago1.11 · 11.5y ago1.1 · 14.3y ago1.0 · 14.3y 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.

v1.12 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

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

Install history · since 2016-11-10 · 1,380 observations

10Installs · Sep 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.

Ratings · 4 reviews

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5★
3 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.12
Last updated
7.4y ago
Added
2012-05-04 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.9
Tested up to
5.1.24
Requires PHP
5.2
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Akira Leir
    5.1y ago

    Does its job just fine on WordPress 5.7.2 and PHP 7.4. If I had anything to complain about is that it doesn’t touch links from shortcodes, but maybe that’s a WP limitation rather than a plugin bug/malfunction.

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  2. ★★★★★ prefec2
    8.3y ago

    The plugin does not work as advertised. Tests still show referrers.

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  3. ★★★★★ m4dl.com
    10.6y ago

    Thanks to developer. nice job. setting panel is great opetion

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  4. ★★★★★ 9tteu
    13.4y ago

    Does not work with latest WP. I wish it will work like the plugin Anonymize Links because it have a much better settings panel and options.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ 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. 2024-03-21 20+ → 10+ down after 6 days in tier
  2. 2024-03-15 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2024-03-14 20+ → 10+ down after 303 days in tier
  4. 2023-05-16 30+ → 20+ down after 177 days in tier
  5. 2022-11-20 20+ → 30+ up after 9 days in tier
  6. 2022-11-11 30+ → 20+ down after 16 days in tier
  7. 2022-10-26 20+ → 30+ up after 12 days in tier
  8. 2022-10-14 30+ → 20+ down

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).

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