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Display Category Post Count

by amitk06 · eCommerce

Also makes 1 other plugin · 110+ installs across the portfolio →

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This plugin help you to display post count in category for wordpress post and woocommerce product

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 68 average across 5,562 eCommerce plugins

100+

Active installs

≈190 estimated

3.4K

Total downloads

since 2019

3.85★

Rating (adjusted)

3.7★ raw · 3 reviews

+6%

90

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

High removal-risk signals

65/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Reviews souring. Recent reviews read meaningfully worse than older ones, an early sign of decline.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.19.

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.

43 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 25/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2032 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

+6% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

90

now · peak 172

9030d 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

Display Category Pos · #14531 you Bulk Move · #2292 Require Post Categor · #6921 Better Random Redire · #8090

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.7Stars · Aug 26

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.

900per 1k installs · Aug 26

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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

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

Install history · since 2021-09-03 · 1,386 observations

100Installs · 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 · 3 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
5.6y ago
Added
2019-06-12 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
4.4
Tested up to
5.6.19
Requires PHP
5.6
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Recent review vibe

read from the latest 3 reviews to 2023-03-11
Deteriorating PraiseSupport gone quietFeature requests

Older reviewers liked how simple it is for counting posts across custom types, but the most recent review says the counts came out wrong and nobody answered.

Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ eddypiv
    3.5y ago

    Wrong results and no support. Useless. This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by eddypiv.

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  2. ★★★★★ mediawork.ch
    4.6y ago

    Very cool. It’s a simple plugin to count the posts also for custom types. but i miss the function to define a range (from/to) or count for the current year.

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  3. ★★★★★ humanarttribe
    5.9y ago

    This little plugin saved the day for my team, which is using Avada’s blog element to display paginated results. The element doesn’t respect configuration options that allow you to display total number of pages, making it look like there were only two. This shortcode gave us a great option for telling users how many user-submitted posts we truly have, increasing our social proof. Thanks!!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.6.1

✓ 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

  1. 2025-03-13 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2025-03-11 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2025-03-09 200+ → 100+ down

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