Front Page Custom Post Type
by Nick Halsey · Uncategorized
If you use custom post types, you may wish to display recent posts of a custom type in place of recent posts on your front page.
51 health vs 57 average across 9,479 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 734 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
56
now · peak 162
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
No band crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Custom Front Page 900+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D -
Frontype | Select a custom post type as a front page 300+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Black Studio Homepage Builder for Genesis 60+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
Custom Post Type Permalinks 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A - C Custom Post Type Widgets 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
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Custom Post Types and Custom Fields creator – WCK 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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