Favorite Links Widget
by Anil Kumar Panigrahi · Uncategorized
Get the new Favorite links widget which can display Favorite links in your WordPress blog or site sidebar. Developed by Anil Kumar Panigrahi.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈150 estimated
Momentum
-21%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 0/100. Last updated 3609 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
45 health vs 58 average across 25,763 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.0%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 4.9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,773 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39, well behind 6.8.
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 3609 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.7.39; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
0 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3609 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 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 151 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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 1 Nov 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.
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 “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 13 months ago; the previous band took 2.1 years to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 4 Jun 2016
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ sueleo11.1y ago
Hi. This plug-in is a nice widget, however it only can accommodate one link. It would be great if you can simply continue to add your favorite links in one widget. I have many recommended sites that I would like to post on my side bar. Maybe you can add this functionality?
Read on wp.org ↗ - Read on wp.org ↗★★★★★ Anil Kumar Panigrahi11.1y ago
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
1 of 8 pass · checked 1 Nov 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Get the new Favorite links widget which can display Favorite links in your WordPress blog or site sidebar...."
- ! 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 Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 540 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ! Tags match the text No tags set.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-10-07 200+ → 100+ down after 757 days in tier
- 2023-09-11 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-09-10 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-09-08 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-09-07 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-09-05 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-09-04 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-09-03 300+ → 200+ down after 334 days in tier
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