Running audit
ACF Recent Posts Widget
- Pulling install history
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- Checking ranking factors
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Plugin audit
ACF Recent Posts Widget
ACF Recent Posts Widget has urgent issues capping its growth.
Active installs
500+
Rating
5.0★
12 reviews
Downloads / 30d
333
Momentum
+36%
30d vs the 30d before
Against 5902 tracked Admin & Utilities plugins: health 54 vs 56 average · rating 4.45★ vs 3.80★.
What we found
Open security vulnerability
CriticalA known unpatched vulnerability is recorded against this plugin.
What to do: Patch and release an advisory before anything else.
Likely abandoned
CriticalNo update in 36 months. wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users avoid them.
What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.
Review volume is thin
OpportunityOnly 12 ratings. A handful of reviews makes your star average fragile and weakens trust at install time.
What to do: Run a structured in-plugin review prompt and a review campaign.
Strong momentum. Downloads are accelerating (+36% vs prior month). Good moment to amplify.
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Downloads, last 2 years
From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.
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