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Catch IDs

Name: Catch IDs
Rating: 4.8 (20 reviews)
Author: Catch Themes

⤓ Download v3.0 on WordPress.org ↗

by Catch Themesupdated 2026-05-21🌿The Dependable Sort

A tiny developer tool with a surprisingly loud marketing voice.

HealthyDeclining

75/100

The utility is helpful but the promotional admin tab is quite intrusive.

Loved32/40

Trustworthy13/15

Fair & Honest10/15

Maintained18/18

Momentum2/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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// Add ID column to post/page/custom post type list tables
add_filter( 'manage_posts_columns', 'catch_ids_add_column' );
add_filter( 'manage_pages_columns', 'catch_ids_add_column' );
function catch_ids_add_column( $columns ) {
    $columns['catch_id'] = 'ID';
    return $columns;
}
add_action( 'manage_posts_custom_column', 'catch_ids_column_value', 10, 2 );
add_action( 'manage_pages_custom_column', 'catch_ids_column_value', 10, 2 );
function catch_ids_column_value( $column, $post_id ) {
    if ( 'catch_id' === $column ) {
        echo esc_html( $post_id );
    }
}

// Add ID column to media library
add_filter( 'manage_media_columns', 'catch_ids_add_column' );
add_action( 'manage_media_custom_column', 'catch_ids_column_value', 10, 2 );

// Add ID column to taxonomy (category/tag) list tables
add_filter( 'manage_edit-category_columns', 'catch_ids_add_column' );
add_filter( 'manage_edit-post_tag_columns', 'catch_ids_add_column' );
add_filter( 'manage_category_custom_column', 'catch_ids_tax_value', 10, 3 );
add_filter( 'manage_post_tag_custom_column', 'catch_ids_tax_value', 10, 3 );
function catch_ids_tax_value( $out, $column, $term_id ) {
    if ( 'catch_id' === $column ) {
        return esc_html( $term_id );
    }
    return $out;
}

// Add ID column to users list table
add_filter( 'manage_users_columns', 'catch_ids_add_column' );
add_action( 'manage_users_custom_column', 'catch_ids_user_value', 10, 3 );
function catch_ids_user_value( $out, $column, $user_id ) {
    if ( 'catch_id' === $column ) {
        return esc_html( $user_id );
    }
    return $out;
}

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Active installs

~51,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+

Rating

4.8★

20 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-29%

Declining fast

122 → 87 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORdownloads down 29% vs a year ago

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining fast · -29% in the last year

122/day a year ago→87/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Catch IDs is a well-regarded developer utility for surfacing post and page IDs in WordPress, praised for its simplicity and clean integration, but at least one user raised a serious concern about the developer abusing plugin access to promote their own commercial offerings.

What people like

+Lightweight and non-intrusive — adds no overhead to page rendering and does not interfere with the site×2
+Considered essential by developers for easily finding post and page IDs, a gap in WordPress core×6
+Free of monetization nags and upsells within the plugin itself
+Conforms to current WordPress coding standards and integrates seamlessly

Common complaints

−Developer injected a 'Catch Plugins' tab (promoting their own premium plugins) into the WordPress Add Plugins admin page without clear disclosure, which users consider an abuse of plugin privileges and potentially a ToS violation

Review trustMostly organic

4.79★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
5%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2025-08-082026-01-052026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 20 total

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 20 analyzed

2025-07-15★★★★★I love this plugin Raul L Garcia
2020-03-19★★★★★Thank you…thirty6
2019-12-04★★★★★Simple, Useful Plugin Organic Themes
2019-05-31★★★★★Added it's own section to main Add Plugins page wswp2
2018-08-29★★★★★Does what it has to do Ervin Domonkos
2018-08-19★★★★★Excellent Plugin dixiereid
2017-12-26★★★★★Brilliant Christoph
2017-05-05★★★★★Excellent Papik81
2016-07-02★★★★★Good work Dan
2016-06-20★★★★★Great plugin silentk1n91-shot

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2026-05-21v3.0
2026-02-17v2.8.1
2026-02-02v2.8
2026-01-07v2.7.3
2025-05-12v2.7.2
2024-04-16v2.7.1
2023-11-15v2.7
2022-11-03v2.6

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

202

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

8,484

Mean release-day peak (30d)

180

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

+17.3%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

100%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

3.16

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

95%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.80 → 4.79★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered