Widget Alias: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Widget Alias still maintained?

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

No release for a while. The last one was 8 months ago.
Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Widget Alias alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Widgets & Sidebar Content. Widget Alias itself ranks #119 of 139. How plugins are grouped.

#1

Standing

More installed than 72.8% of the directory

Ahead of 34,745 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

72.8% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

34,745 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

12,983 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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