EmbedStories – Display social media stories
by embedsocial · Social
Also makes 1 other plugin · 4.2K+ installs across the portfolio →
EmbedStories allows you to easily embed Instagram Stories on your website
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Health
D 54/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
200+
≈290 estimated
Momentum
-6%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “instagram stories”, “instagram widget” and “social media feed” 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.
54 health vs 58 average across 1,834 Social plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.9%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 10.7K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Social plugin keeps 0.5%, across 1,276 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Social plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.18.
Details
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 1376 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.0.18; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.15★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 1376 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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| amp stories your tag | #23 | #18 | down 2 |
| instagram stories your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| instagram widget your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| social media feed your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| social media tools your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
2 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 1 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “instagram stories”, “instagram widget” and “social media feed” 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 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 397 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
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.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2 months ago and the previous band took 14 months to cross, so the real count is still just under 300.
Install history since 15 Dec 2018
Security history
via Wordfence IntelligenceThe 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (0.7.5). Sites still on an older version should update.
- Patched Medium · 6.4 EmbedStories <= 0.7.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode ↗2023-01-30 CVE-2023-0372 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 0.7.4 Patched in 0.7.5
Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.
CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.1.1
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 "EmbedStories allows you to easily embed Instagram Stories on your website"
- ! 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 Mentions Instagram.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,047 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 5 tags appear in the text ("AMP stories", "Instagram widget", "Social Media Feed", "social media tools" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-08-30 300+ → 200+ down after 429 days in tier
- 2025-06-27 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-06-26 300+ → 400+ up after 12 days in tier
- 2025-06-14 400+ → 300+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2025-06-10 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-06-08 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-06-07 300+ → 400+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2025-06-04 400+ → 300+ down after 6 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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EmbedSocial – Social Media Feeds, Reviews and Galleries 4K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags C -
Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed – Easy Social Feeds Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag B -
Social Feed Gallery 80K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag B -
Spotlight Social Photo Feed 60K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
WPZOOM Social Feed Widget & Block 50K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
Widgets for Social Photo Feed 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
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