Zen Dash
by Jay Versluis · Admin & Utilities
Disable dashboard widgets, menu items and update notifications. Declutter your dashboard with Feng Shui magic. Less is more.
46 health vs 55 average across 2,129 Admin & Utilities plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.10.
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 1351 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
20
now · peak 66
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,370 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-02 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-03-01 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-02-28 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in band
- 2026-02-26 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-02-24 30+ → 20+ down after 94 days in band
- 2025-11-22 20+ → 30+ up after 57 days in band
- 2025-09-26 30+ → 20+ down after 150 days in band
- 2025-04-29 40+ → 30+ down after 38 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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Disable Media Pages 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B - R Remove Author Pages 3K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
- S Simple No Comments 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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Disable Customizer 400+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D -
Disable WP Revisions 400+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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