Modern Related Posts
by wphigh · Uncategorized
A beautiful, modern, animated, responsive Related Posts Plugin.
47 health vs 56 average across 11,661 Uncategorized 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, 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 4102 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
50
now · peak 151
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 “60+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-17 70+ → 60+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-07-14 60+ → 70+ up after 77 days in tier
- 2026-04-28 70+ → 60+ down after 146 days in tier
- 2025-12-03 80+ → 70+ down after 217 days in tier
- 2025-04-30 90+ → 80+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2025-04-23 80+ → 90+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2025-04-19 90+ → 80+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2025-04-17 80+ → 90+ up 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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Custom Post Types Relationships (CPTR) 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D -
Contextual Related Posts 50K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Related Posts by Taxonomy 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Same Category Posts 3K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
Manual Related Posts 1K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A - W WP Simple Related Posts 300+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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