Native WP Excerpt

With this plugin you can edit excerpt tail, add link and set text for it, change words lenght in excerpt, change text in more tag and remove scroll.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 60 average across 6,049 Uncategorized plugins

70+

Active installs

≈76 estimated

1.8K

Total downloads

since 2017

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-38%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.28, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 9/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3323 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

-38% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 73

Directory rank

wp.org popularity rank over time · lower is better

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.

modeled estimate

70–80 ≈76

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

At the current install trend, crossing 80+ in roughly 214 days.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0
Last updated: 9.1y ago
Added: 2017-06-11 · 9 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 4.0
Tested up to: 4.8.28
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

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

2026-07-12 60+ → 70+ up after 18 days in band
2026-06-24 70+ → 60+ down after 79 days in band
2026-04-06 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in band
2026-04-05 70+ → 60+ down after 3 days in band
2026-04-02 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in band
2026-04-01 70+ → 60+ down after 3 days in band
2026-03-29 60+ → 70+ up after 4 days in band
2026-03-25 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in band

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