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FAQ Block

by Jordy Meow · Blocks

Also makes 29 other plugins · 352.1K+ installs across the portfolio →

Very simple and clean Gutenberg Block for FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions).

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 50/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

500+

≈550 estimated

Momentum

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no download trend yet

Biggest opportunity: “answer”, “block” and “faq” 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.

How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 8/100
Rating quality 84/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 71 average across 2,524 Blocks plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

3.2%

of downloads still active

At least 500 of 15.7K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Blocks plugin keeps 2.1%, across 1,578 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Blocks 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

45/100

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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.

Details

Version
1.0.8
Last updated
3.0y ago
Added
2018-07-10 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
6.0
Tested up to
6.3.14
Requires PHP
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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.

57 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 17/100

Updated 1113 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 60/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.3.14; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 63/100

4.9★ over 9 reviews, smoothed to 4.22★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 1113 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

— vs prior 30d
1131 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 630 · peaks are release surges

21331 Oct 2026

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

FAQ Block · #8973youSpectra Legacy · #63Crowdsignal Forms · #267VK Blocks · #383

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.931 Oct 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

5031 Oct 2026

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.

42631 Oct 2026

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

3.0y ago

latest release · v1.0.8 · 15 Oct 2023

9

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.8 · 15 Oct 20231.0.7 · 27 Jul 20221.0.6 · 20 Feb 20221.0.5 · 1 Aug 20211.0.4 · 22 Jun 20191.0.2 · 7 Dec 20181.0.0 · 5 Dec 20180.0.2 · 26 Jul 20180.0.1 · 10 Jul 2018

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈550

Crossed into this band 8 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 10 Dec 2018

50031 Oct 2026

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.3.2

✓ 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 10 languages, 7 at 90% or more

Chinese (China) 100%
Italian 100%
Portuguese (Brazil) 100%
Russian 100%
Spanish (Chile) 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Swedish 100%
Japanese 50%
Turkish 50%
German 37%

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 29 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Very simple and clean Gutenberg Block for FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)."
  • ! 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 Gutenberg.
  • ! Headings and lists 2 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 600 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "answer" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-03-11 600+ → 500+ down after 6 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-05 500+ → 600+ up after 16 days in tier
  3. 2026-02-17 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-02-16 500+ → 600+ up after 11 days in tier
  5. 2026-02-05 600+ → 500+ down after 221 days in tier
  6. 2025-06-29 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-06-28 600+ → 700+ up after 5 days in tier
  8. 2025-06-23 700+ → 600+ down after 205 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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