WP Simple SEO Meta
by Epigrade · SEO
Add page title, meta description, keywords and robots to all post types and taxonomies.
45 health vs 62 average across 678 SEO 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.24, 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 2602 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
24
now · peak 57
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-07-10 40+ → 30+ down after 30 days in band
- 2025-06-10 30+ → 40+ up after 123 days in band
- 2025-02-07 40+ → 30+ down after 9 days in band
- 2025-01-29 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
- 2025-01-27 40+ → 30+ down after 95 days in band
- 2024-10-24 30+ → 40+ up after 132 days in band
- 2024-06-14 40+ → 30+ down after 130 days in band
- 2024-02-05 30+ → 40+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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SiteSEO – SEO Simplified 500K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
SEO SIMPLE PACK 100K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
Meta Tag Manager 80K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
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