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by Thorsten Frommen · Uncategorized

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This plugin registers a custom post type to handle external content like any other post. The post permalink is replaced by a custom post meta that hol …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 72/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

4.6K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.91★

Rating (adjusted)

4.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+20%

36

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, 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.

33 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 5/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3893 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+20% vs prior 30d
-9Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

36

now · peak 137

5130d 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

External Content · #24774 you Root Relative URLs · #2916 External URL Feature · #10090 WP Autoset Featured · #13480

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4Stars · 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.

2.5Kper 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

10.7y ago

latest release · v1.4.2

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.2 · 10.7y ago1.4.1 · 10.7y ago1.4.0 · 11.0y 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.

v1.4 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

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

Install history · since 2015-09-19 · 1,380 observations

20Installs · 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 · 1 reviews

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5★
0 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.4.0
Last updated
10.7y ago
Added
2015-05-08 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
2.9.0
Tested up to
4.4.34
Requires PHP
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 17 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

German 81%
Japanese 22%
Romanian 9%
Chinese (China) 4%
Czech 4%
Dutch 4%
English (Australia) 4%
English (New Zealand) 4%
English (UK) 4%
Esperanto 4%
Finnish 4%
French (Belgium) 4%
French (Canada) 4%
Greek 4%
Luxembourgish 4%
Portuguese (Portugal) 4%
Spanish (Spain) 4%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-21 30+ → 20+ down after 56 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-26 40+ → 30+ down after 9 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-17 50+ → 40+ down after 21 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-27 60+ → 50+ down after 3 days in tier
  5. 2026-03-24 70+ → 60+ down after 351 days in tier
  6. 2025-04-07 80+ → 70+ down after 51 days in tier
  7. 2025-02-15 70+ → 80+ up after 76 days in tier
  8. 2024-12-01 80+ → 70+ down after 5 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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