Front End PM: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Front End PM still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 4 weeks ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
Well rated. 4.8 out of 5 from 220 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 92.5% of the directory

Ahead of 44,144 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.

92.5% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

44,144 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

3,589 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: 11.4.7
Requires WordPress: 4.4
Tested up to: 7.1.4
Requires PHP: 7.1
Added to the directory: 20 April 2014
Last updated: 12 October 2026
Contributors: 1
Author: Shamim Hasan
Support threads resolved: 1 of 1

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