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WP Home Page Menu

by Free WP TP · Admin & Utilities

This plugin displays home page menu in the navigation bar which can be configured easily from the admin area.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 54 average across 3,792 Admin & Utilities plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.16.

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.

46 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 6/100
WP compatibility 36/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1655 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+88% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

62

now · peak 117

6230d 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 Home Page Menu · #13705 you Admin Menu Editor · #159 Max Mega Menu · #164 Menu Image, Icons ma · #405

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.

620per 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

4.5y ago

latest release · v3.1

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.1 · 4.5y ago3.0 · 5.5y ago2.0 · 6.2y ago1.0 · 9.6y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 79% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.1 79%
v2.0 15%
v3.0 6.4%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈180

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

Install history · since 2017-07-06 · 1,384 observations

100Installs · 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
3.1
Last updated
4.5y ago
Added
2016-02-26 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
5.9.16
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. safaa zakaria
    9.2y ago

    Works well.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. skraaj
    10.4y ago

    The plugin does exactly what is says in the description, works flawlessly and is easy to configure.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. Vinod Dalvi
    10.4y ago

    I liked it to use to add home menu quickly in my site navigation bar.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2022-02-21 CVE-2022-0684 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects < 3.1 Patched in 3.1

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.9.1

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 132 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Swedish 80%
Japanese 32%
French (France) 20%
Arabic 16%
Basque 16%
Belarusian 16%
Bulgarian 16%
Catalan 16%
Chinese (China) 16%
Croatian 16%
Czech 16%
Danish 16%
Dutch 16%
English (Australia) 16%
English (Canada) 16%
English (New Zealand) 16%
Estonian 16%
Finnish 16%
Galician 16%
German 16%
German (Formal) 16%
Greek 16%
Hindi 16%
Hungarian 16%

Plus 108 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-11-17 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-15 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2025-11-13 200+ → 100+ down after 6 days in tier
  4. 2025-11-07 100+ → 200+ up after 4 days in tier
  5. 2025-11-03 200+ → 100+ down after 501 days in tier
  6. 2024-06-20 300+ → 200+ down after 283 days in tier
  7. 2023-09-11 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2023-09-10 300+ → 400+ up after 1 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).

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