Custom Recent Posts Widget Plus

by javierjara · Admin & Utilities

Nice widget it is like the default Recent Posts widget except you can choose a category and in addition show the thumbnails.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

How scoring works →

41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 57 average across 1,503 Admin & Utilities plugins

10+

Active installs

≈19 estimated

2.4K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-56%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38, 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 3/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4093 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

-56% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 148

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

Custom Recent Posts · #40398 Recent Posts by Cate · #3442 Recent Posts Widget · #344 Category Posts Widge · #869

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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

10–20 ≈19

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 1.1
Last updated: 11.2y ago
Added: 2015-05-03 · 11 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.0.1
Tested up to: 4.0.38
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

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

2023-06-01 20+ → 10+ down after 21 days in band
2023-05-11 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in band
2023-05-09 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in band
2023-05-07 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in band
2023-05-06 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in band
2023-05-05 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in band
2023-05-04 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in band
2023-05-01 10+ → 20+ up after 9 days in band

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