Featured Products by Category
by jameskira · Uncategorized
Also makes 1 other plugin · 60+ installs across the portfolio →
WooCommerce has products called Featured Products which are products that become featured when they are starred or set in the WP Admin dashboard.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
60+
≈70 estimated
Momentum
+30%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 2/100. Last updated 2295 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
45 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.7%
of downloads still active
At least 60 of 2.2K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,764 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.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.25.
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 2295 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.4.25; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
0 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2295 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 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 81 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #19,100 to #20,000, alongside the other plugins at 60+ 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 21 Oct 2026.
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
6.3y ago
latest release · v1.1 · 19 Jul 2020
1
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
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 “60+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 70.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ SimpleRick6.2y ago
Hi james, terrific Plug-In works great ! Seems like nobody has dicovered this plug-in yet. Any change there will be a function in the feature which will allow to scheduele Featured Post for each category? Thanks.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.5.3
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more · development strings
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 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! 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 WooCommerce, Elementor.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 774 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
- 2026-10-28 70+ → 60+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2026-10-21 60+ → 70+ up after 133 days in tier
- 2026-06-10 70+ → 60+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2026-06-06 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-05 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-06-04 60+ → 70+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-06-02 70+ → 60+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-05-30 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
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Drop a live Pulse card for Featured Products by Category into a readme, a review or a deck. It updates itself.
<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/featured-products-by-category" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Featured Products by Category — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Featured Products by Category: 60+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/featured-products-by-category
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