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Yahoo! WebPlayer

by 8bitkid · Uncategorized

Embeds the Yahoo! WebPlayer plugin into your site to play back media links (music and video) and monetize purchases via Amazon.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 55 average across 13,217 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 3.3.2, 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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5181 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-62% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

33

now · peak 417

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

Yahoo! WebPlayer · #21599 SEO Ultimate · #1465 WP Associate Post R2 · #4180 Beautiful Yahoo Weat · #13771

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 ≈47

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Details

Version
2.0.6
Last updated
14.2y ago
Added
2008-02-28 · 18 yrs on WP
Requires WP
2.0.2
Tested up to
3.3.2
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-22 50+ → 40+ down after 332 days in tier
  2. 2025-07-25 60+ → 50+ down after 156 days in tier
  3. 2025-02-19 50+ → 60+ up after 35 days in tier
  4. 2025-01-15 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-01-14 50+ → 60+ up after 3 days in tier
  6. 2025-01-11 60+ → 50+ down after 166 days in tier
  7. 2024-07-29 70+ → 60+ down after 282 days in tier
  8. 2023-10-21 80+ → 70+ down after 184 days in tier

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