WP Simple Menu Icons
by Alessandro Tesoro · Admin & Utilities
An easy way to add font awesome icons to your navigation menus.
41 health vs 54 average across 3,764 Admin & Utilities 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.17.
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 2025 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
17
now · peak 47
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
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “—”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,369 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Material UI Menu Icons – Nifty Menu Options 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
Service Boxes Widgets Text Icon 100+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D -
FA WP Admin Menu Icons 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Font Awesome 400K+ installs · 3.7★ · 1 shared tag B -
Admin Menu Editor 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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