Dinosaur Game

76 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

With only 1,000 active installs, this is a long-tail novelty plugin rather than a mainstream utility, but the score is bumped because user engagement is unusually high for the install base.

Update Freshness

25/25

The plugin was updated on 2025-08-14 and is tested against WordPress 6.8.5, signalling an active maintainer despite the small user base.

User Rating

15/15

A perfect 100 rating from 13 voters is impressive, although the tiny sample size means the average can swing easily with one new low score.

Support Health

8/15

There are zero support threads opened and zero resolved, which gives the maintainer a neutral 50 because there is nothing to evaluate but also no proven track record of helping users.

WP Compatibility

15/15

It declares compatibility with WordPress 6.8.5 and only requires PHP 5.2.4, giving it very wide hosting compatibility, though there is no formal testing data beyond the self-reported header.

Scores higher than 46% of indexed plugins

About

Add the dinosaur game from Google Chrome to your site using the [dinosaur-game] shortcode.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2026-07-19 8:41am GMT

Requires WordPress 3.3+

Tested Up To 7.0.4

Requires PHP 5.2.4+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

This plugin embeds a working copy of the Chrome offline dinosaur runner game into any WordPress page or post using the simple [dinosaur-game] shortcode. Players control the dinosaur to jump over cacti and duck under pterodactyls, just like the classic browser Easter egg. It serves as a lightweight novelty widget for entertainment or distraction.

Who It's For

This plugin is a good fit for niche sites that want a small interactive distraction, such as kids' educational pages, intranet break rooms, or landing pages where users might be waiting during a launch or maintenance window. It is also useful as a playful placeholder during site development or downtime. Owners of purely content-driven publications, e-commerce stores, or professional service sites will find little practical value here.

Who Should Skip It

Anyone running a serious business site, store, or professional publication should skip this, since an embedded game on every page would undermine credibility and distract from conversion goals. Developers looking for a real offline error page replacement should build a proper 503 fallback rather than relying on a novelty plugin.

The Bottom Line

Dinosaur Game is a clean, lightweight novelty that does exactly what it advertises with a perfect user rating, but its tiny install base and lack of any support history mean you are trusting a one-person maintainer with no public track record. Quality comes in at 65.18/100, weighed down mostly by limited reach and the unproven support channel. Treat it as a fun extra, not a critical plugin, and you will not be disappointed.

Pick this when you need a full shortcode library for tabs, buttons, accordions, and other functional UI elements rather than a single novelty game.

Shortcoder — Create Shortcodes for Anything 85/100

Pick this when you want to wrap your own HTML, JavaScript, or snippets into reusable shortcodes across posts, widgets, and theme files.

Football Pool 83/100

Pick this when you want a richer interactive sports game with predictions, scores, and competition management, not just a single-player arcade novelty.

Shortcode in Menus 83/100

Pick this when your goal is simply to run shortcodes inside navigation menu items rather than embed any game at all.

Insert Pages 83/100

Pick this when you need to embed other WordPress pages or posts inside content using a shortcode, not a standalone game widget.