BNS Featured Tag
by Edward Caissie · Admin & Utilities
Displays most recent posts from a specific featured tag or tags.
45 health vs 56 average across 1,682 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 3750 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
35
now · peak 115
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-31 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-03-30 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-03-28 40+ → 30+ down after 3 days in band
- 2026-03-25 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-03-23 40+ → 30+ down after 267 days in band
- 2025-06-29 50+ → 40+ down after 195 days in band
- 2024-12-16 60+ → 50+ down after 94 days in band
- 2024-09-13 70+ → 60+ down after 6 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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Essential Widgets 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
Flexible Posts Widget 7K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D -
SEO Auto Linker 3K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags C - P Page Tagger 2K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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Bulk Images to Posts 1K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D - A Auto Tag Creator 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
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