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Genesis Featured Image Header

by AMP-MODE · Uncategorized

Also makes 12 other plugins · 11.9K+ installs across the portfolio →

Easily add a featured image to the header of every page on your site including Custom Post Type archive pages.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
53 Health · D
Maintenance 22/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

53 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance 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.

61 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 30/100
WP compatibility 77/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 804 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

+7% vs prior 30d
8Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

209

now · peak 297

20930d downloads · Sep 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

Genesis Featured Ima · #13263 you Multiple Featured Im · #3202 Genesis Featured Wid · #4687 SNY Auto Featured Im · #6182

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.

2.1Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.2y ago

latest release · vv1.3

16

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

v1.3 · 2.2y ago1.2.12 · 4.9y ago1.2.11 · 6.0y ago1.2.10 · 7.0y ago1.2.9 · 7.3y ago1.2.8 · 8.8y ago1.2.7 · 9.9y ago1.2.6 · 10.4y ago1.2.4 · 10.4y ago1.2.3 · 10.5y ago1.2.2 · 10.5y ago1.2.1 · 10.6y ago1.2 · 10.8y ago1.1.1 · 10.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 64% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 64%
v1.2 36%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈160

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

Install history · since 2016-02-01 · 1,386 observations

100Installs · Sep 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.

Details

Version
1.3
Last updated
2.2y ago
Added
2015-10-02 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
6.3
Tested up to
6.5.10
Requires PHP
7.4

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. Marty
    10.3y ago

    Right out of the box, a useful tool. Thank you!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. Scott DeLuzio
    10.9y ago

    Easy to add a featured image to any page including custom post type archive pages.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.4

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 114 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Dutch 100%
Swedish 27%
Spanish (Spain) 22%
English (Canada) 13%
Italian 13%
Romanian 13%
Czech 11%
French (France) 11%
German 11%
Arabic 9%
Azerbaijani 9%
Bulgarian 9%
Chinese (China) 9%
Croatian 9%
Danish 9%
English (Australia) 9%
English (New Zealand) 9%
English (UK) 9%
Esperanto 9%
Estonian 9%
Finnish 9%
German (Formal) 9%
German (Switzerland) 9%
Greek 9%

Plus 90 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-13 200+ → 100+ down after 9 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-04 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-03 200+ → 100+ down after 550 days in tier
  4. 2024-11-30 300+ → 200+ down after 321 days in tier
  5. 2024-01-14 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2024-01-12 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-01-11 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-01-10 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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