Advanced Featured Post Widget
by tepelstreel · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 9 other plugins · 2.6K+ installs across the portfolio →
With the Advanced Featured Post Widget you can put a certain post (or post type) in the focus and style it differently.
45 health vs 54 average across 3,793 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, well behind 6.8.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3796 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
72
now · peak 410
Directory rank vs rivals
wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you
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
10.4y ago
latest release · v3.5.2
38
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% 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 “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ CarlBateman9.2y ago
A pleasure to use. Did everything I needed in a single widget. Well done, sir!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Alexander10.4y ago
Показывает похожие посты в сайдбаре в очень красивой форме. Настраиваемый. На всех сайтах подняло посещалку!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ saksaksak12.0y ago
I used this plugin with Page Builder on WP version 4.0. This plugin has loads of configurability. Maybe configuration options may have been grouped better together. But who cares? They all work neatly! One good thing with this widget is; it allows you to choose a specific post (which is expected but I have seen other widgets where you had to use category tricks to do this simple thing). Options work nicely. like, if you do not want title to be displayed, it does not instead display blank line but it actually deletes the whole title line. It is great. What would be better? Maybe an option to display the excerpt text on the right side of the image. Maybe to specify the length of the excerpt in number of characters as well as sentences. Thanks to the author!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ rajneesh198712.2y ago
This plugin works flawless. Is it possible to assign the Post Featured Image as Featured Post thumbnail Image as currently it assigns only first image into the post as thumbnail image.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ DreAnthony12.6y ago
Don’t like this plug-in widget. Settings are too cluttered, and the featured thumbnail display & title doesn’t look good.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ keko432113.5y ago
been looking for random post plugin that works with IE, FF and chrome and this one is flawless .. Thank you so much
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-08-16 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2025-08-14 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-08-13 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-08-12 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2025-08-09 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-08-08 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-08-06 200+ → 100+ down after 9 days in tier
- 2025-07-28 100+ → 200+ up after 2 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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Meks Simple Flickr Widget 20K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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