Customize Posts
by Weston Ruter · Uncategorized
Also makes 29 other plugins · 337K+ installs across the portfolio →
Edit posts and postmeta in the Customizer. Stop editing your posts/postmeta blind!
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
D 48/100
Stale · Likely abandoned
Active installs
1K+
≈1.5K estimated
Momentum
+22%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “customize”, “customizer” and “editor” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
48 health vs 58 average across 25,734 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.7%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 57.9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,766 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.0, well behind 6.8.
Details
Recent review vibe
read from the latest 12 reviews to 2022-11-08Reviewers like the live front-end preview and clean design, with a couple wishing for page builder support and inline editing on the post pages themselves.
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3273 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.9.0; the current branch is 6.8
4.7★ over 18 reviews, smoothed to 4.26★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3273 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
51
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.5
Velocity
places per keyword, 24d
50%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 24d
0.0
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| customize your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| customizer your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| editor your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| postmeta your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| posts your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
4 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 4 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “customize”, “customizer” and “editor” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 280 · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
9.0y ago
latest release · v0.9.1 · 14 Nov 2017
22
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 18 months ago; the previous band took 20 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 1 Jan 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Flora Reda4.0y ago
This plugin saves my time and I think this plugin is very useful for customizing content posting!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Angel4.0y ago
It works great
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ claudiodserra8.9y ago
not great but cool
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Joachim9.0y ago
Good Job! This is the right way to get more WYSIWYG when editing posts without losing the many possibilities of customization by plugins.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Siam ลอตเตอรี่9.0y ago
It’s easy to see the preview post before publish it. Thanks
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ zeth779.1y ago
Good work!!!!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ wpwebbiepro9.6y ago
Just what my clients need
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ quenderin9.6y ago
Very useful, just wish you could do the same directly on the post pages!
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 8 languages, 5 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
3 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Edit posts and postmeta in the Customizer. Stop editing your posts/postmeta blind!"
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 3,931 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-05-05 2K+ → 1K+ down after 586 days in tier
- 2023-09-27 3K+ → 2K+ down after 404 days in tier
- 2022-08-19 4K+ → 3K+ down after 748 days in tier
- 2020-08-01 5K+ → 4K+ down after 274 days in tier
- 2019-11-01 6K+ → 5K+ down after 579 days in tier
- 2018-04-01 4K+ → 6K+ up after 90 days in tier
- 2018-01-01 2K+ → 4K+ up after 89 days in tier
- 2017-10-04 600+ → 2K+ up after 95 days in tier
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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Classic Editor 8M+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A - C Classic Widgets 2M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag B
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