Latest Posts Widget
by Mrinal Roy · Admin & Utilities
Adds a widget that shows the most recent posts of your site with excerpt, featured image, date by sorting & ordering feature
45 health vs 57 average across 1,393 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34, well behind 6.8.
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
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3866 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
33
now · peak 92
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
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-28 300+ → 200+ down after 345 days in band
- 2025-04-17 400+ → 300+ down after 308 days in band
- 2024-06-13 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-06-12 400+ → 500+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-06-10 500+ → 400+ down after 230 days in band
- 2023-10-24 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in band
- 2023-10-23 500+ → 600+ up after 10 days in band
- 2023-10-13 600+ → 500+ down after 3 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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WP Popular Posts 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Category Posts Widget 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A - U Ultimate Posts Widget 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
- N Newpost Catch 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
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Flexible Posts Widget 7K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/latest-posts-widget" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Latest Posts Widget — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Latest Posts Widget: 200+ active installs, 4.5★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/latest-posts-widget