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Hide Featured Image

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

10K+

Active installs

≈17K estimated

272.3K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.61★

Rating (adjusted)

3.6★ raw · 81 reviews

+26%

403

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.31, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

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How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

44 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 76/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3015 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+26% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

403

now · peak 907

42030d downloads · Aug 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

Hide Featured Image · #1562 you WP Hide Show Feature · #3653 Featured Video Plus · #1979 Featured Image from · #620

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.6Stars · 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.

42per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 96% 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 96%
Older / other versions 3.7%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10K–20K ≈17K

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

Install history · since 2015-05-27 · 1,450 observations

10KInstalls · 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.

Ratings · 81 reviews

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5★
48 4★
3 3★
1 2★
5 1★
24

Details

Version
1.3.1
Last updated
8.3y ago
Added
2015-05-22 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP
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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 1.3.1 Made Plugin Translation ready. 1.3.1
  2. — Version 1.3 Made Plugin Translation ready. Modified to support latest WordPress. Fixed Minor bugs and security update. Provided support for Twenty Seventeen Theme 1.3
  3. — Version 1.2 Update description and confusing text. Minor bugs and security update. 1.2
  4. — Version 1.1 Added page support Added option to hide featured image on all posts/pages 1.1
  5. — Version 1.0 Initial release 1.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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. 2025-12-24 20K+ → 10K+ down after 604 days in tier
  2. 2024-04-29 30K+ → 20K+ down after 421 days in tier
  3. 2023-03-05 40K+ → 30K+ down

Competes with

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