WP Lynx
by John Havlik · Social
WP Lynx allows you to mimic Facebook's wall links in your WordPress posts.
45 health vs 55 average across 1,109 Social plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.10.
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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1333 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 · 1,382 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
20
now · peak 156
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-23 30+ → 20+ down after 51 days in tier
- 2026-05-03 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-02 30+ → 20+ down after 208 days in tier
- 2025-10-06 40+ → 30+ down after 16 days in tier
- 2025-09-20 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-09-18 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-09-17 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2025-09-14 40+ → 30+ down after 11 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Post Duplicator 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags 50K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A - W WP Admin UI Customize 30K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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OG — Better Share on Social Media 30K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A - P Public Post Preview Configurator 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
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No External Links 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
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