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JWD PostSlider Widget

by JordacheWD [JWD] · Media

Display your posts through a full responsive and highly customisable carousel widget.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
48 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 84/100
Support 70/100

48 health vs 59 average across 1,814 Media plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.19.

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.

43 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 19/100
Rating quality 62/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2199 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-46% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

25

now · peak 85

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

JWD PostSlider Widge · #18322 Carousel Horizontal · #4748 Carousel, Slider, Ph · #619 Carousel Slider · #954

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

tracked estimate
70–80 ≈76

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,375 observations

Details

Version
1.8.4
Last updated
6.0y ago
Added
2016-12-20 · 9 yrs on WP
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
5.4.19
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-13 80+ → 70+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-11 70+ → 80+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-09 80+ → 70+ down after 97 days in tier
  4. 2026-01-02 90+ → 80+ down after 146 days in tier
  5. 2025-08-09 100+ → 90+ down after 46 days in tier
  6. 2025-06-24 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-06-23 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-06-21 90+ → 100+ up after 3 days in tier

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JWD PostSlider Widget: 70+ active installs, 5.0★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/jwd-postslider-widget