Author Recent Posts
by Amit Sonkhiya · Uncategorized
Author Recent Posts shows recent posts by an author on the posts written by the author as a responsive widget. This plugin is useful for multi-author …
45 health vs 67 average across 3,509 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.17.
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 2045 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
32
now · peak 86
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 “90+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-06-05 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-06-04 90+ → 100+ up after 3 days in band
- 2026-06-01 100+ → 90+ down after 698 days in band
- 2024-07-03 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-07-02 100+ → 200+ up after 10 days in band
- 2024-06-22 200+ → 100+ down after 428 days in band
- 2023-04-21 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-04-20 200+ → 300+ up after 4 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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- W WP Admin UI Customize 30K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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VK Post Author Display 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A - P Public Post Preview Configurator 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
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WP Author, Date and Meta Remover 10K+ installs · 3.5★ · 2 shared tags D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/author-recent-posts" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Author Recent Posts — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Author Recent Posts: 90+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/author-recent-posts