ZD Header Tags
by Proloy Chakroborty · Uncategorized
Put tags in between
41 health vs 55 average across 15,734 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
51/100Maintenance 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 16+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- No tested-up-to version. The listing declares no "Tested up to" version.
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 6118 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
47
now · peak 160
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 “70+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-02-21 80+ → 70+ down after 302 days in tier
- 2025-04-25 90+ → 80+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2025-04-18 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-04-17 90+ → 80+ down after 6 days in tier
- 2025-04-11 80+ → 90+ up after 62 days in tier
- 2025-02-08 90+ → 80+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2025-02-04 80+ → 90+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-02-02 90+ → 80+ down after 138 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Insert Headers And Footers 300K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Head, Footer and Post Injections 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
Header and Footer Scripts 200K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag B -
Meta Tag Manager 80K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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