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WP Simple Redirect

by Arevico · Uncategorized

Create short links and redirect in your WordPress dashboard, both simple links as well as regular expression matching.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 11,588 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 7/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3623 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 · 1,382 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-55% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

20

now · peak 74

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 Redirect · #22115 WP-PageNavi · #131 Custom Post Type Per · #273 Custom Permalinks · #406

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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈46

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
9.9y ago
Added
2016-07-29 · 9 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.6.30
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-11 50+ → 40+ down after 5 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-06 40+ → 50+ up after 54 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-11 50+ → 40+ down after 27 days in tier
  4. 2026-01-15 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2026-01-14 50+ → 40+ down after 252 days in tier
  6. 2025-05-07 60+ → 50+ down after 4 days in tier
  7. 2025-05-03 50+ → 60+ up after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-05-01 60+ → 50+ down after 6 days in tier

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