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Focus – Featured Posts Widget & Shortcode

by Jeffrey Carandang · Uncategorized

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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 56 average across 16,380 Uncategorized plugins

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

3.3K

Total downloads

since 2016

4.11★

Rating (adjusted)

4.8★ raw · 4 reviews

+32%

58

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

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 4.7.35, 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 3638 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+32% vs prior 30d
-2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

58

now · peak 146

6230d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

24.3KRank · Jul 26

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · 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.

3.1Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

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

modeled estimate
20–30 ≈27

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2019-12-10 · 1,382 observations

20Installs · 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 small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 4 reviews

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5★
3 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
10.0y ago
Added
2016-09-15 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
4.7.35
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ purelyp03
    9.5y ago

    Does exactly what it says it will do.

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  2. ★★★★★ basitijaz
    9.8y 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.

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  3. ★★★★★ ryan-nobby
    9.9y ago

    A fantastic plugin, exactly what I was looking for! Looks great, and is very easy to use and fit onto any page.

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  4. ★★★★★ Mwiinga
    10.0y ago

    works as designed. Great plugin.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-08-31 30+ → 20+ down after 284 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-20 40+ → 30+ down after 398 days in tier
  3. 2024-10-18 50+ → 40+ down after 3 days in tier
  4. 2024-10-15 40+ → 50+ up after 10 days in tier
  5. 2024-10-05 50+ → 40+ down after 197 days in tier
  6. 2024-03-22 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-03-21 50+ → 60+ up after 7 days in tier
  8. 2024-03-14 60+ → 50+ down after 68 days in tier

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Focus – Featured Posts Widget & Shortcode: 20+ active installs, 4.8★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/focus-slider