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Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries

by slickremix · Social

Custom social media feeds for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, & YouTube. Works with Elementor, Beaver Builder, and Gutenberg blocks.

How scoring works →
89 Health · A
Maintenance 99/100
Rating quality 92/100
Support 70/100

89 health vs 55 average across 1,135 Social plugins

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.

98 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 93/100
Listing tuning 100/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,421 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-34% vs prior 30d
146Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

4.4K

now · peak 115.9K

4.3K30d downloads · Aug 26

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

Feed Them Social · #1218 you Metricool · #521 Iframely · #5147 Open Graph · #1812

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.7Stars · Aug 26

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.

217per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

4

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v4.4.2

131

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.4.2 · 3mo ago4.4.1 · 7mo ago4.4.0 · 11mo ago4.3.9 · 11mo ago4.3.8 · 1.3y ago4.3.7 · 1.4y ago4.3.6 · 1.5y ago4.3.5 · 1.5y ago4.3.4 · 1.7y ago4.3.3 · 1.8y ago4.3.2 · 1.8y ago4.3.1 · 1.9y ago4.3.0 · 2.0y ago4.2.9 · 2.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 56% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v4.4 56%
v4.3 11%
v2.9 9.9%
Older / other versions 23%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20K–30K ≈29K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-10 · 1,478 observations

20KInstalls · Aug 26

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

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

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 declining trend compresses what a buyer would pay.

Details

Version
4.4.2
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2012-12-19 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
5.4
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.0

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 4.4.2 Fix: Instagram Hashtag Feed > images for videos not appearing Fix: unclosed quote for wp_kses tag for access token input. Fix: check for typeof myString and length for custom Facebook access token. Misc: Adjust a few sty 4.4.2
  2. Version 4.4.1 New: Adjust like, comment, and share icon position for Facebook Feed. Fix: Facebook Feed > Grid Spaces Between Posts option value Fix: Prevented CSS minifier from converting Unicode escape sequences (hex codes) into lite 4.4.1
  3. Version 4.4.0 Fix: The uninstall file was causing issue not allowing plugin to be deleted from Plugins page. Fix: YouTube Feed > remove http from url types Fix: Instagram Feed > rename let url to fts_url to prevent conflicts with some 4.4.0
  4. Version 4.3.9 Refactor: Use PSR-4 autoloading standard. Refactor: Classes and File Names to use PascalCase and functions to be camelCase. Fix: Settings > General > When deleting cache the cache time option was reset on settings page. 4.3.9
  5. Version 4.3.8 Fix: Warning message for _load_textdomain_just_in_time() Fix: Spacing for Cache Settings time in admin menu bar. Works with WordPress version 6.8.1 4.3.8
  6. Version 4.3.7 Works with WordPress version 6.8 Note > Combined Streams Extension > Fix: YouTube Feed > feed_type added to ftsYoutubeVideoAndWrap function because only Channel ID Videos were showing up. This was causing videos to not a 4.3.7

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

13 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2024-01-31 CVE-2024-24710 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 4.2.0 Patched in 4.2.1
  2. 2023-03-29 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 4.0.7 Patched in 4.0.8
  3. 2023-02-21 CVE-2023-25056 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 3.0.2 Patched in 4.0.0
  4. 2022-11-14 CVE-2022-2940 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.9.9 Patched in 3.0.1
  5. 2022-11-14 CVE-2022-2942 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 2.9.9 Patched in 3.0.1
  6. 2022-07-26 CVE-2022-2383 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.9.9 Patched in 3.0.1
  7. 2022-07-26 CVE-2022-2532 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.9.9 Patched in 3.0.1
  8. 2022-07-12 CVE-2022-2437 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affects <= 2.9.8.5 Patched in 2.9.8.6
  9. 2022-07-12 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 2.9.8.5 Patched in 2.9.8.6
  10. 2022-07-12 CVE-2022-2383 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.9.9 Patched in 3.0.1
  11. 2020-09-16 CVE-2020-36739 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects < 2.8.7 Patched in 2.8.7
  12. 2015-02-02 CVE-2015-9351 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') Affects <= 1.6.9 Patched in 1.7.0
  13. 2015-02-02 CVE-2015-9350 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.6.9 Patched in 1.7.0

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 67 languages, 0 at 90% or more

German 86%
Danish 81%
English (UK) 81%
Swedish 39%
Spanish (Spain) 26%
Ukrainian 19%
Russian 16%
Dutch 12%
German (Switzerland) 9%
Spanish (Mexico) 7%
Italian 6%
French (France) 4%
Arabic 3%
Azerbaijani 3%
English (Australia) 3%
English (Canada) 3%
Finnish 3%
Hebrew 3%
Polish 3%
Portuguese (Portugal) 3%
Romanian 3%
Bulgarian 2%
Catalan 2%
Chinese (China) 2%

Plus 43 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-07-21 30K+ → 20K+ down after 615 days in tier
  2. 2023-11-14 40K+ → 30K+ down after 241 days in tier
  3. 2023-03-18 50K+ → 40K+ down after 24 days in tier
  4. 2023-02-22 70K+ → 50K+ down

Competes with

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Feed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries: 20K+ active installs, 4.7★ (638 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-25. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/feed-them-social