YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter
by Ozh · Social
Use YOURLS (a free GPL URL shortener service) to create short URLs of your posts, or for your BuddyPress groups and users
43 health vs 59 average across 480 Social plugins
Removal-risk signals
45/100Maintenance 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.
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 4325 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
45
now · peak 564
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,371 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-01-14 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-01-12 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-01-11 200+ → 100+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- O Ozh' Tweet Archiver 30+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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Nextend Social Login and Register 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Custom Twitter Feeds – A Tweets Widget or X Feed Widget 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Social Media Widget 30K+ installs · 3.9★ · 1 shared tag D -
Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag C -
Easy Twitter Feed Widget Plugin 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag D
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