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Newpost Catch

by Tetsuya Imamura · Admin & Utilities

Thumbnails in new articles setting widget.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
84 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

84 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

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.

89 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+288% vs prior 30d
78Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

3.4K

now · peak 6.5K

3.4K30d downloads · Aug 26

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

Newpost Catch · #2169 you Image Widget · #402 Responsive Lightbox · #321 Recent Posts Widget · #347

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

339per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

1

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v1.3.23

29

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.23 · 3mo ago1.3.22 · 1.5y ago1.3.19 · 2.4y ago1.3.18 · 2.7y ago1.3.17 · 3.7y ago1.3.16 · 3.8y ago1.3.15 · 4.3y ago1.3.14 · 4.4y ago1.3.13 · 4.6y ago1.3.12 · 4.6y ago1.3.5 · 4.6y ago1.3.8 · 6.0y ago1.3.3 · 9.4y ago1.3.2 · 9.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 95% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 95%
Older / other versions 5.2%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10K–20K ≈14K

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

Install history · since 2015-03-23 · 1,451 observations

10KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Details

Version
1.3.24
Last updated
8d ago
Added
2012-03-19 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
5.6
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
7.4

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ccsx
    11.0y ago

    ヴァージョン1から使わせていただきした、 今でも問題なく稼働している。 This topic was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by ccsx.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. Tetsuya Imamura
    11.2y ago

    A latest post can be indicated with an eye catch, and a short code can also be used, and the contribution type can also be designated.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2025-02-20 CVE-2025-1406 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.3.19 Patched in 1.3.20

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 58 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Japanese 95%
English (Canada) 23%
Romanian 23%
Azerbaijani 19%
English (Australia) 19%
English (UK) 19%
Hebrew 19%
Italian 19%
Spanish (Chile) 19%
Catalan 14%
Cebuano 14%
Chinese (China) 14%
Dutch 14%
Dutch (Formal) 14%
English (New Zealand) 14%
English (South Africa) 14%
Finnish 14%
French (Canada) 14%
French (France) 14%
German 14%
Greek 14%
Hindi 14%
Moroccan Arabic 14%
Polish 14%

Plus 34 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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