Simple Location: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Simple Location still maintained?

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

Updated recently. The last release was 7 days ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Simple Location alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Maps & Location. Simple Location itself ranks #61 of 81. How plugins are grouped.

#1

WP Go Maps – Google Map, OpenStreetMap, Leaflet Map

wp-google-maps 300K installs · 4.8 stars #2

WP Maps – Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, Mapbox, Store Locator with Search, Filters & Listings

wp-google-map-plugin 60K installs · 4.3 stars #3

Standing

More installed than 76.7% of the directory

Ahead of 36,610 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.

76.7% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

36,610 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

11,123 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.

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