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Custom Recent Posts Widget

Custom Recent Posts Widget has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

1K+

Rating

4.9★

9 reviews

Downloads / 30d

210

Momentum

+27%

30d vs the 30d before

Against 25735 tracked Uncategorized plugins: health 48 vs 58 average · rating 4.32★ vs 3.79★.

What we found

1 critical 1 to fix 1 opportunity
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Likely abandoned

Critical

No update in 109 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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Readme fails 6 of 8 AI readiness checks

Needs work

AI assistants recommend what they can quote. Failing: has a faq, faq asks real questions, names who it is for, names what it works with, headings and lists and enough to quote. Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.

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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Review volume is thin

Opportunity

Only 9 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.

Downloads, last 2 years

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

Full report for Custom Recent Posts Widget →
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