Youngwhan's Simple Latex
by breadncup · Uncategorized
The usage is simple.
50 health vs 56 average across 10,579 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance 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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 956 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
41
now · peak 141
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-10-20 300+ → 200+ down after 333 days in band
- 2024-11-21 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-11-19 300+ → 200+ down after 3 days in band
- 2024-11-16 200+ → 300+ up after 161 days in band
- 2024-06-08 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-06-07 200+ → 100+ down after 8 days in band
- 2024-05-30 100+ → 200+ up after 146 days in band
- 2024-01-05 90+ → 100+ up after 8 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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WP-KaTeX 800+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags D -
KaTeX 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags B -
Direct math input with MathQuill 30+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags D - M MathJax-LaTeX 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags C
- W WP QuickLaTeX 4K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
- S Simple Mathjax 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
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