Dashboard: Recent Posts Extended
by Ricardo Gonzalez · Admin & Utilities
Widget for the WordPress 2.7+ dashboard to display the latest posts.
41 health vs 54 average across 3,700 Admin & Utilities 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 17+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7, 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 6377 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
56
now · peak 143
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
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-09-07 30+ → 20+ down after 224 days in tier
- 2025-01-26 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-01-25 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2025-01-22 20+ → 30+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2025-01-17 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2025-01-13 20+ → 30+ up after 8 days in tier
- 2025-01-05 30+ → 20+ down after 15 days in tier
- 2024-12-21 20+ → 30+ up after 144 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- D Dashboard Widget Sidebar 400+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags D
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Dashboard Welcome for Elementor 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Widget Disable 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags C -
Widget Box Lite 900+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D - D Dashboard Commander 900+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
- D Disable WordPress Events and News Dashboard Widget 400+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D
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