WP Spry Menu
by takien · Admin & Utilities
Create Spry Drop Down Menu for WordPress category.
45 health vs 55 average across 1,959 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1, 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 4359 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
28
now · peak 66
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 “60+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,375 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-07 70+ → 60+ down after 8 days in band
- 2026-05-30 60+ → 70+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-05-28 70+ → 60+ down after 50 days in band
- 2026-04-08 60+ → 70+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-04-06 70+ → 60+ down after 26 days in band
- 2026-03-11 60+ → 70+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-03-08 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-03-07 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
-
Automatically Hierarchic Categories in Menu 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A - W Webfish Dropdown Menu 70+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
- U User Dropdown Menu 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
-
Admin Menu Editor 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Max Mega Menu 300K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Menu Image, Icons made easy 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag B
Embed this report card
Drop a live Pulse card for WP Spry Menu into a readme, a review or a deck. It updates itself.
<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/wp-spry-menu" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="WP Spry Menu — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> WP Spry Menu: 60+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-spry-menu