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Content Widget

by shazdeh · Admin & Utilities

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A widget that allows you to display the content of a post (of any type) in a widget area.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

400+

Active installs

≈450 estimated

12.5K

Total downloads

since 2012

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+68%

101

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 7/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3651 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+68% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

101

now · peak 158

10130d downloads · Aug 26

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

Content Widget · #9762 you Recent Posts Widget · #347 Image Widget · #403 Custom Sidebars · #441

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

253per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v0.4 96%
v0.3 3.8%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈450

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

Install history · since 2019-12-06 · 1,422 observations

400Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.4.2
Last updated
10.0y ago
Added
2012-04-24 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.3
Tested up to
4.6.30
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Hugh Lashbrooke
    12.0y ago

    I envisioned this exact plugin and was going to write myself until I came across this. It’s the perfect solution for what it does – nice work!

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  2. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    13.7y ago

    This is great for adding content in the sidebar while retaining version history.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

Swedish 81%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-03 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-05-02 400+ → 500+ up after 6 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-26 500+ → 400+ down after 5 days in tier
  4. 2026-04-21 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
  5. 2026-04-18 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2026-04-17 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-04-16 500+ → 400+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2026-04-14 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier

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