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Advanced Posts Blocks

by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe) · Blocks

Create Blocks filtered by any post type and any categories, tags or custom taxonomy terms.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
48 Health · D
Maintenance 8/100
Rating quality 77/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 69 average across 1,043 Blocks plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

49 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 17/100
WP compatibility 60/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1089 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-5% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

125

now · peak 629

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

Advanced Posts Block · #11735 GenerateBlocks · #218 Simple Definition Li · #5759 Spectra Legacy · #51

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “200+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈290

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations

Details

Version
5.2.0
Last updated
3.0y ago
Added
2019-01-08 · 7 yrs on WP
Requires WP
6.1
Tested up to
6.3.8
Requires PHP
7.4

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2025-07-26 300+ → 200+ down after 516 days in band
  2. 2024-02-26 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
  3. 2024-02-25 300+ → 200+ down after 53 days in band
  4. 2024-01-03 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
  5. 2024-01-02 300+ → 200+ down after 4 days in band
  6. 2023-12-29 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
  7. 2023-12-27 300+ → 200+ down after 4 days in band
  8. 2023-12-23 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band

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Advanced Posts Blocks: 200+ active installs, 4.4★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/advanced-posts-blocks