News, Magazine and Blog Elements
by aThemeArt · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 9 other plugins · 11.2K+ installs across the portfolio →
News, Magazine and Blog Elements is shipped as Visual Composer addon , Page builder Widgets, Widgets & Shortcode.
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Health
D 44/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews · Open vulnerability
Active installs
50+
≈58 estimated
Momentum
-9%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: “main news page scrolling”, “news website” and “wordpress horizontal news plugin widget” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
44 health vs 56 average across 5,904 Admin & Utilities plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.5%
of downloads still active
At least 50 of 9.8K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,194 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35, well behind 7.1.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3135 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.9.35; the current branch is 7.1
2.5★ over 4 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.0★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3135 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
42
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
+0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 22d
25%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 22d
+0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| main news page scrolling your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| news website your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| wordpress horizontal news plugin widget your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| wordpress news plugin your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| wordpress vertical news plugin widget your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
4 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 4 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “main news page scrolling”, “news website” and “wordpress horizontal news plugin widget” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,491 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 154 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #20,100 to #21,300, alongside the other plugins at 50+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “50+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 23 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 60.
Install history since 27 Feb 2018
Security history
via Wordfence Intelligence1 open vulnerability affects the current version (1.3). 0 of 1 disclosed are patched.
- Open Medium · 6.4 News, Magazine and Blog Elements <= 1.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗2025-04-01 CVE-2025-31740 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.3 No patch available
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.
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
3 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Installation Instructions").
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you have"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Twitter, Zoom.
- ✓ Headings and lists 3 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 4,437 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 5 tags appear in the text ("main news page scrolling", "news website", "wordpress horizontal news plugin widget", "wordpress vertical news plugin widget" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-11 60+ → 50+ down after 312 days in tier
- 2025-12-03 70+ → 60+ down after 163 days in tier
- 2025-06-23 80+ → 70+ down after 141 days in tier
- 2025-02-02 90+ → 80+ down after 95 days in tier
- 2024-10-30 80+ → 90+ up after 51 days in tier
- 2024-09-09 90+ → 80+ down after 90 days in tier
- 2024-06-11 100+ → 90+ down after 601 days in tier
- 2022-10-19 200+ → 100+ down after 521 days in tier
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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