WP Maintenance Mode Admin Bar Alert
by David Herrera · Admin & Utilities
Checks whether the Maintenance Mode of the WP Maintenance Mode plugin is on and, if so, adds an alert to that effect in your Admin Bar.
45 health vs 54 average across 3,499 Admin & Utilities 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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1, 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 5395 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
106
now · peak 106
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 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-13 20+ → 10+ down after 17 days in tier
- 2026-04-26 10+ → 20+ up after 33 days in tier
- 2026-03-24 20+ → 10+ down after 11 days in tier
- 2026-03-13 10+ → 20+ up after 20 days in tier
- 2026-02-21 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-02-20 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-02-18 20+ → 10+ down after 841 days in tier
- 2023-10-31 30+ → 20+ down after 376 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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Maintenance 1M+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A -
Website Builder by SeedProd — Theme Builder, Landing Page Builder, Coming Soon Page, Maintenance Mode 700K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
LightStart – Maintenance Mode, Coming Soon and Landing Page Builder 400K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
Password Protected — Lock Entire Site, Pages, Posts, Categories, and Partial Content 300K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A -
CMP – Coming Soon & Maintenance Plugin by NiteoThemes 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Minimal Coming Soon – Coming Soon Page 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
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