Featured Item Metabox
by HelgaTheViking · Uncategorized
Quickly add a metabox to any post type for marking a post as featured. Toggle featured status even more quickly from the posts lists/ quick edit scre …
43 health vs 59 average across 6,714 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.21, 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 2342 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
118
now · peak 125
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 “80+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-07-11 90+ → 80+ down after 311 days in band
- 2025-09-03 100+ → 90+ down after 14 days in band
- 2025-08-20 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in band
- 2025-08-18 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-08-17 90+ → 100+ up after 3 days in band
- 2025-08-14 100+ → 90+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Ocean Extra 500K+ installs · 3.4★ · 1 shared tag B -
Featured Image from URL (FIFU) 70K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Conditionally display featured image on singular posts and pages 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Hide Featured Image 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D -
Featured Video Plus 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag D -
Pure Metafields 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B
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