Latest Posts with Restful API
by Hadi Akbarijedi · Content & Feeds
A WordPress plugin to get the latest posts in JSON format
45 health vs 59 average across 611 Content & Feeds plugins
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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.0.12.
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 1521 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
23
now · peak 86
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-31 30+ → 20+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2026-01-24 20+ → 30+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2026-01-15 30+ → 20+ down after 27 days in tier
- 2025-12-19 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2025-12-17 30+ → 20+ down after 537 days in tier
- 2024-06-28 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-06-27 30+ → 40+ up after 69 days in tier
- 2024-04-19 40+ → 30+ down after 5 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Disable WP REST API 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
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WP REST Cache 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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