Daring Fireball-style Linked List Plugin

by yjsoon · Content & Feeds

This plugin makes your RSS feed behave like Daring Fireball's linked list posts, and has some extra features to make posting linked lists easier.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

How scoring works →

41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 59 average across 579 Content & Feeds plugins

30+

Active installs

≈37 estimated

14.0K

Total downloads

since 2010

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-1%

137

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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4, 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.

33 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 1/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5507 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

-1% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

137

now · peak 199

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

Daring Fireball-styl · #22665 Subscribe Button by · #7156 Broken Link Checker · #119 LuckyWP Table of Con · #455

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.

modeled estimate

30–40 ≈37

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 2.7.4
Last updated: 15.1y ago
Added: 2010-09-08 · 15 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 2.7
Tested up to: 3.1.4
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

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

2026-07-13 40+ → 30+ down after 42 days in tier
2026-06-01 30+ → 40+ up after 3 days in tier
2026-05-29 40+ → 30+ down after 2 days in tier
2026-05-27 30+ → 40+ up after 4 days in tier
2026-05-23 40+ → 30+ down after 517 days in tier
2024-12-22 50+ → 40+ down after 263 days in tier
2024-04-03 60+ → 50+ down after 11 days in tier
2024-03-23 50+ → 60+ up after 97 days in tier

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Daring Fireball-style Linked List Plugin: 30+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/daring-fireball-linked-list