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Black Bar

Black Bar

Site Management Site Diagnostics & Troubleshooting

Black Bar is a WordPress plugin for Site Diagnostics & Troubleshooting. It ranks #68 of 97 in that group by active installs and was last updated 6 months ago.

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Slug blackbar

500 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
5.0 Rating out of 5 From 9 ratings
24 Releases Since 22 February 2018
May 2026 Last release 6 months ago

Maintenance check

Is Black Bar still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

  • Updated recently. The last release was 6 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Standing

More installed than 80.8% of the directory

Ahead of 38,580 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

80.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
38,580 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
9,153 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
4.2.0
Requires WordPress
6.7
Tested up to
7.0.8
Requires PHP
8.1.2
Added to the directory
22 February 2018
Last updated
17 May 2026
Contributors
2
Author
Gemini Labs

Its own tags

  • black bar
  • blackbar
  • debug bar
  • debugbar
  • debugging

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