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DashPress

by arena · Admin & Utilities

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Allows you to display the last items of several feeds on your dashboard

⚠ 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 3,793 Admin & Utilities plugins

10+

Active installs

≈17 estimated

6.4K

Total downloads

since 2010

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+57%

36

Downloads · 30d

category median +22%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.21.

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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 19/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2290 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+57% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

36

now · peak 64

3630d 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

DashPress · #41492 you Dashboard Notepad · #2132 Super RSS Reader · #2227 Dashboard Widgets Su · #3381

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.

3.6Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

6.3y ago

latest release · v5.0

11

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

5.0 · 6.3y ago4.1 · 6.4y ago4.0 · 7.6y ago3.9 · 7.7y ago3.8 · 8.5y ago3.7 · 9.8y ago3.6 · 10.4y ago3.5 · 10.4y ago3.4 · 12.8y ago3.2 · 15.0y ago3.1 · 15.1y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v5.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈17

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

Install history · since 2019-01-12 · 1,387 observations

10Installs · 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
5.0
Last updated
6.3y ago
Added
2010-12-21 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
5.4.21
Requires PHP
7.0
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 2 reviews to 2014-08-14
Positive Praise

Both reviewers give five stars, praising DashPress for putting RSS feeds on the dashboard, with one asking how to show it to authors as well as admins.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Dragonaut
    12.1y ago

    This plugin is great if you want to put RSS feeds in your dashboard for all authors and contributors to see, and give them easy access to the latest stories in the fields they’re interested in.

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  2. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    13.2y ago

    Hello. I would like to use this for all “authors” on our site but it seems to only show for admins. is there a way to change that? Thanks in advance.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4.1

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

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