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WP Simple Insert

by WhizKins · Uncategorized

A plugin to insert custom HTML or PHP code in your posts. Includes options to insert before or after post content.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
42 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 67/100
Support 70/100

42 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized plugins

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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5254 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

+22% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

28

now · peak 56

2830d 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 Simple Insert · #29212 you Post Duplicator · #221 Header and Footer Sc · #246 Post Type Switcher · #270

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.

2.8Kper 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

14.4y ago

latest release · v1.1.3

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1.3 · 14.4y ago1.1.2 · 14.4y ago1.1.1 · 15.5y ago1.1 · 15.5y ago1.0 · 15.6y 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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

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

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈16

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

Install history · since 2021-05-17 · 1,377 observations

10Installs · 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
1.1.3
Last updated
14.4y ago
Added
2011-02-09 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.4.2
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. cscottb
    13.3y ago

    This is a pretty straight forward plugin. There are boxes for you to enter your code, check boxes for areas to exclude, and click save. I did this, but the html was not displayed on the page. I disabled all other plugins, but that did not resolved the problem.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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. 2026-02-27 20+ → 10+ down after 310 days in tier
  2. 2025-04-23 30+ → 20+ down after 376 days in tier
  3. 2024-04-12 40+ → 30+ down after 191 days in tier
  4. 2023-10-04 50+ → 40+ down after 157 days in tier
  5. 2023-04-30 60+ → 50+ down after 93 days in tier
  6. 2023-01-27 70+ → 60+ down after 13 days in tier
  7. 2023-01-14 60+ → 70+ up after 33 days in tier
  8. 2022-12-12 70+ → 60+ down after 36 days in tier

Competes with

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