Admin filter posts by year
by gilles66 · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 2 other plugins · 4.3K+ installs across the portfolio →
In your admin area, this plugin offers the avaibility to filter your posts by YEARS and not only by MONTHS OF YEARS.
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Health
C 57/100
Stale · Few reviews
Active installs
300+
≈400 estimated
Momentum
+3%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “admin” for “filter posts by year”. “admin” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “filter posts by year” sits at #15 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
57 health vs 56 average across 5,896 Admin & Utilities plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →4.6%
of downloads still active
At least 300 of 6.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,186 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 2 reviews to 2026-01-07Both reviewers are happy, calling it a simple year filter that works well and saying it's something WordPress should do by default.
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 636 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.7.11; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 636 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| filter posts by year | #15 | #24 | 0 |
| admin your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| filter your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| posts your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| year your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| years your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “admin” for “filter posts by year”. “admin” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “filter posts by year” sits at #15 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 240 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
1.7y ago
latest release · v2.4 · 2 Feb 2025
5
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 86% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 20 days ago and the previous band took 15 months to cross, so the real count is still just under 400.
Install history since 16 Sep 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ intarwebsdeveloper10mo ago
Great plugin that adds a basic filter to show your posts by year. Very helpful if you have hundreds or more posts and you only want to view or select a specific year’s posts. Default WordPress filters only let you filter by month, not sure why this isn’t a built-in filter but this plugin does the job. This topic was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by intarwebsdeveloper. This topic was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by intarwebsdeveloper.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ yoramzara12.5y ago
Works very well. I guess this is how core should behave
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.1
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
2 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "In your admin area, this plugin offers the avaibility to filter your posts by YEARS and not only by MONTHS..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 116 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-11 400+ → 300+ down after 451 days in tier
- 2025-07-17 300+ → 400+ up after 40 days in tier
- 2025-06-07 200+ → 300+ up after 189 days in tier
- 2024-11-30 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-11-29 200+ → 300+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2024-11-20 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-11-19 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2024-11-15 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Post Lists View Custom 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
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