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Disco Free by Headliner

by neil · Content & Feeds

This plugin installs and configures the Disco Free podcast recommendation widget which is built to help turn your readers into listeners.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
49 Health · D
Maintenance 23/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

49 health vs 63 average across 364 Content & Feeds 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 32/100
WP compatibility 77/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 766 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2023-05-21 · 1,153 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-44% vs prior 30d
May 23
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

22

now · peak 184

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

Disco Free by Headli · #24478 Podlove Podcast Publ · #4005 Presto Player · #362 Seriously Simple Pod · #1094

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

modeled estimate
20–30 ≈26

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

Install history · since 2023-05-20 · 1,136 observations

Details

Version
1.3.1
Last updated
2.1y ago
Added
2023-05-19 · 3 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
6.5.8
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-10 30+ → 20+ down after 29 days in band
  2. 2026-06-11 20+ → 30+ up after 35 days in band
  3. 2026-05-07 30+ → 20+ down after 5 days in band
  4. 2026-05-02 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
  5. 2026-05-01 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in band
  6. 2026-04-28 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in band
  7. 2026-04-26 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in band
  8. 2026-04-25 20+ → 30+ up after 6 days in band

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Disco Free by Headliner: 20+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/headliner-disco-free