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Better Recent Comments

Better Recent Comments has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

2K+

Rating

4.8★

16 reviews

Downloads / 30d

424

Momentum

+68%

30d vs the 30d before

Against 5897 tracked Admin & Utilities plugins: health 54 vs 56 average · rating 4.42★ vs 3.80★.

What we found

1 critical 2 opportunity 1 strengths
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Likely abandoned

Critical

No update in 32 months. wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users avoid them.

What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.

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Review volume is thin

Opportunity

Only 16 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.

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Readme fails 1 of 8 AI readiness checks

Opportunity

AI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: headings and lists. 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.

What to do: Rewrite the readme so each failed check passes: say the job in the first line, answer real questions in the FAQ, name who it is for and what it works with, and use headings and lists. For the same check on your plugin's own website, run the free AI visibility scan from AgentVania.

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Strong momentum. Downloads are accelerating (+68% vs prior month). Good moment to amplify.

Downloads, last 2 years

From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.

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111 Nov 2026

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