Featured Products by Category
by jameskira · Uncategorized
WooCommerce has products called Featured Products which are products that become featured when they are starred or set in the WP Admin dashboard.
45 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins
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 5.4.21.
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 2234 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
40
now · peak 81
Directory rank
wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better
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.
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
6.1y ago
latest release · v1.1
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ SimpleRick6.0y 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.
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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
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 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
- 2026-05-29 70+ → 60+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2026-05-24 60+ → 70+ up after 2 days in tier
Embed this report card
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 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/featured-products-by-category