Hosted Content Importer (HCI)
by Bimal Poudel · Uncategorized
Also makes 12 other plugins · 820+ installs across the portfolio →
Embeds a remotely hosted content. Contributors can edit a tiny piece of your blog text externally, without having ANY access to your website.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈19 estimated
Momentum
-0%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “cached”, “content” and “embed” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
45 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.3%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 3.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,764 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24.
Details
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2156 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2156 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| cached your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| content your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| embed your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| external your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| gist your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “cached”, “content” and “embed” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 166 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
5.9y ago
latest release · v3.0.3 · 5 Dec 2020
5
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 19 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 20.
Install history since 19 Aug 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ chrislachance7.0y ago
Exactly what I was looking for. A simple way for both Content teams & Dev teams to maintain separate content streams using WordPress for basic editing, and Github hosted .md files from the development team for the nitty grity.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ backwheelbates7.6y ago
Thanks so much for this plugin, Ive been looking all over for something like this! Great job!!
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.5.3
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
8 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Embeds a remotely hosted content. Contributors can edit a tiny piece of your blog text externally, without..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 7 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 7 of 7 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("for developers", "if you want").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Google Analytics, YouTube.
- ✓ Headings and lists 13 headings and 7 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 4,013 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-12 20+ → 10+ down after 42 days in tier
- 2026-08-31 10+ → 20+ up after 52 days in tier
- 2026-07-10 20+ → 10+ down after 59 days in tier
- 2026-05-12 10+ → 20+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-05-08 20+ → 10+ down after 798 days in tier
- 2024-03-01 30+ → 20+ down after 143 days in tier
- 2023-10-10 20+ → 30+ up after 7 days in tier
- 2023-10-03 30+ → 20+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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Embed Notion Pages 100+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags - T ThickBox Content 100+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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One Click Demo Import 1M+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag B -
EmbedPress 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A - A Advanced Excerpt 80K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A
- I iframe 60K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag B
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