Breaking News Posts
by dimandu · Media
The Breaking News Posts plugin allow you to display a slider with break news links right after your navigation.
41 health vs 59 average across 2,204 Media 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.23, 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 2276 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
51
now · peak 146
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
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “—”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,385 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Ditty – Responsive News Tickers, Sliders, and Lists 30K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
T4B News Ticker – Responsive News Scroller, Slider, and Animations 7K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
Live News – Responsive News Ticker 2K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C -
TopNewsWp – Display Tikcer News, RSS Feed Widget and Many More 800+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
News Ticker – Floating Headlines & Sticky Alerts 100+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
FYP News Ticker – Scrolling News Banner & Announcement Bar for WordPress 50+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
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