Focus – Featured Posts Widget & Shortcode
by Jeffrey Carandang · Uncategorized
Also makes 7 other plugins · 3.5K+ installs across the portfolio →
Spotlight your Posts using Focus - a multi purpose WordPress Featured Slider Widgets and Shortcode Plugin to display your posts elegantly.
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Health
D 46/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
20+
≈28 estimated
Momentum
-50%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Update recency scores 0/100. Last updated 3699 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
46 health vs 58 average across 25,751 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.6%
of downloads still active
At least 20 of 3.4K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 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.
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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39, well behind 6.8.
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 3699 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.7.39; the current branch is 6.8
4.8★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.15★ and held back under 25 reviews
0 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3699 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 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 146 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #25,300 to #28,300, alongside the other plugins at 20+ 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.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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.
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 “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 30.
Install history since 10 Dec 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ purelyp039.6y ago
Does exactly what it says it will do.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ basitijaz10.0y ago
Works fine. I have shitty plugin installed, it’s necessary for me but truth is very few plugin work with it. Focus is one of them, makes it highly compatible. Some color can be added to make the slider stand out in middle of noise.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ ryan-nobby10.1y ago
A fantastic plugin, exactly what I was looking for! Looks great, and is very easy to use and fit onto any page.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Mwiinga10.1y ago
works as designed. Great plugin.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4
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
4 of 8 pass · checked 26 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Spotlight your Posts using Focus - a multi purpose WordPress Featured Slider Widgets and Shortcode Plugin t..."
- ! 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 Twitter.
- ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 2 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,041 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text No tags set.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-08-31 30+ → 20+ down after 284 days in tier
- 2025-11-20 40+ → 30+ down after 398 days in tier
- 2024-10-18 50+ → 40+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2024-10-15 40+ → 50+ up after 10 days in tier
- 2024-10-05 50+ → 40+ down after 197 days in tier
- 2024-03-22 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-03-21 50+ → 60+ up after 7 days in tier
- 2024-03-14 60+ → 50+ down after 68 days in tier
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