Featured Podcast Widget
by Richard Farrar · Admin & Utilities
A widget that enables you to display your latest podcast from a category or featured podcast utilising the PowerPress plugin's default player.
45 health vs 53 average across 2,824 Admin & Utilities 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, 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 3640 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
29
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 “50+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-03-20 60+ → 50+ down after 19 days in tier
- 2026-03-01 50+ → 60+ up after 8 days in tier
- 2026-02-21 60+ → 50+ down after 34 days in tier
- 2026-01-18 50+ → 60+ up after 14 days in tier
- 2026-01-04 60+ → 50+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-01-01 50+ → 60+ up after 30 days in tier
- 2025-12-02 60+ → 50+ down after 88 days in tier
- 2025-09-05 70+ → 60+ down after 21 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Seriously Simple Podcasting 30K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
AudioIgniter Music Player 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
HTML5 Audio Player – The Ultimate No-Code Podcast, MP3 & Audio Player 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Spreaker Shortcode 4K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D -
Podlove Podcast Publisher 3K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
Meks Audio Player 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/featured-podcast-widget" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Featured Podcast Widget — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Featured Podcast Widget: 50+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/featured-podcast-widget