Advanced Posts Widget
by darrinb · Admin & Utilities
A powerful and flexible recent posts widget for WordPress for displaying customized content lists. Supports all custom post types and taxonomies!
47 health vs 63 average across 875 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 3748 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
64
now · peak 402
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
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-04-28 300+ → 200+ down after 417 days in band
- 2025-03-07 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-03-06 300+ → 400+ up after 5 days in band
- 2025-03-01 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-02-27 300+ → 400+ up after 5 days in band
- 2025-02-22 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-02-21 300+ → 400+ up after 46 days in band
- 2025-01-06 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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WP Popular Posts 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Category Posts Widget 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A - U Ultimate Posts Widget 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
- N Newpost Catch 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
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Flexible Posts Widget 7K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/advanced-posts-widget" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Advanced Posts Widget — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Advanced Posts Widget: 200+ active installs, 5.0★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/advanced-posts-widget