Extended Featured Widget
by Chinmoy · Uncategorized
Extended Featured Content Widget is a powerful, light weight wordpress plugin that helps you can organize your post/page content beautifully.
45 health vs 59 average across 6,716 Uncategorized 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, 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 3915 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 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
58
now · peak 148
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-12-10 200+ → 100+ down after 527 days in band
- 2023-07-02 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-07-01 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
- 2023-06-29 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-06-28 200+ → 300+ up after 3 days in band
- 2023-06-25 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-06-24 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
- 2023-06-23 300+ → 200+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Post Type Switcher 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Pages with category and tag 60K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Reveal IDs 40K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A - W WP Admin UI Customize 30K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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Add Category to Pages 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D -
Duplicate PP 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
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