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Blog Posts Order

by Gagan Goraya · Uncategorized

This plugin lets you order the posts on the blog by manuallyl specified order.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 68/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 60 average across 6,162 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4964 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

-50% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

58

now · peak 149

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

Blog Posts Order · #17317 Post Types Order · #100 SiteOrigin Widgets B · #148 Intuitive Custom Pos · #153

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.

tracked estimate
90–100 ≈97

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
13.6y ago
Added
2012-12-13 · 13 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-26 80+ → 90+ up after 3 days in band
  2. 2026-06-23 90+ → 80+ down after 235 days in band
  3. 2025-10-31 100+ → 90+ down after 117 days in band
  4. 2025-07-06 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in band
  5. 2025-07-04 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in band
  6. 2025-07-02 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in band
  7. 2025-07-01 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in band
  8. 2025-06-30 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in band

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Blog Posts Order: 90+ active installs, 3.0★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/blog-posts-order