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Year Updater

by Emmanuel Chekumbe · Uncategorized

Change the year in the title easily with a click of a button. A WordPress plugin to update the titles of posts with a specific year in their title.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 18/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 63 average across 4,588 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

55 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 26/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 878 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2023-01-12 · 1,282 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-57% vs prior 30d
Jan 23
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

53

now · peak 201

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

Year Updater · #30508 Title Remover · #596 Hide Title · #968 Button visually impa · #1575

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

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈18

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

Install history · since 2023-01-11 · 1,279 observations

Details

Version
1.3.2
Last updated
2.4y ago
Added
2023-01-11 · 3 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
6.4.8
Requires PHP
7.4

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-09-14 20+ → 10+ down after 10 days in band
  2. 2025-09-04 10+ → 20+ up after 5 days in band
  3. 2025-08-30 20+ → 10+ down after 4 days in band
  4. 2025-08-26 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in band
  5. 2025-08-24 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in band
  6. 2025-08-21 10+ → 20+ up after 3 days in band
  7. 2025-08-18 20+ → 10+ down after 17 days in band
  8. 2025-08-01 10+ → 20+ up after 5 days in band

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Year Updater: 10+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/year-updater