YouTube Share Overlay Buttons
by tranhoang · Social
Adding Share Buttons as Overlay on YouTube Videos
44 health vs 56 average across 761 Social 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 4.0.38, 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 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
52
now · peak 129
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2023-02-17 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in band
- 2023-02-15 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-02-14 20+ → 10+ down after 4 days in band
- 2023-02-10 10+ → 20+ up after 8 days in band
- 2023-02-02 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in band
- 2023-01-31 10+ → 20+ up after 9 days in band
- 2023-01-22 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in band
- 2023-01-20 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- M MP Share Center 50+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags D
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Seed Social 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C -
Autopost for X (formerly Autoshare for Twitter) 5K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A - Я Яндекс Поделиться 900+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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ShareLite: Zero-Bloat Social Sharing 400+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C - W WP Ya Share 200+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/youtube-share-overlay-buttons" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="YouTube Share Overlay Buttons — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> YouTube Share Overlay Buttons: 10+ active installs, 4.0★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/youtube-share-overlay-buttons