Focus – Featured Posts Widget & Shortcode

Spotlight your Posts using Focus - a multi purpose WordPress Featured Slider Widgets and Shortcode Plugin to display your posts elegantly.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

How scoring works →

46 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 78/100

Support 70/100

46 health vs 61 average across 5,861 Uncategorized plugins

30+

Active installs

≈37 estimated

3.2K

Total downloads

since 2016

4.11★

Rating (adjusted)

4.8★ raw · 4 reviews

-57%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 4.7.33, 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.

20 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 8/100

Rating quality 55/100

Listing tuning 20/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3592 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-57% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 146

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

30–40 ≈37

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Ratings · 4 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0
Last updated: 9.8y ago
Added: 2016-09-15 · 9 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 4.0
Tested up to: 4.7.33
Requires PHP: —

Changelog ↗Support forum ↗Reviews ↗Advanced stats ↗

Growth timeline

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

2025-11-20 40+ → 30+ down after 398 days in band
2024-10-18 50+ → 40+ down after 3 days in band
2024-10-15 40+ → 50+ up after 10 days in band
2024-10-05 50+ → 40+ down after 197 days in band
2024-03-22 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in band
2024-03-21 50+ → 60+ up after 7 days in band
2024-03-14 60+ → 50+ down after 68 days in band
2024-01-06 50+ → 60+ up after 20 days in band

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