NewsPlugin

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 85% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ upc2018

   8.0y ago

   This free news feed plugin was perfect for a quick set-up of a news feed on a new blog. The video helped a lot with set-up, even though there are a few new features not yet shown in that video. Most people should breeze through it. Great for a beginner WP user. This topic was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by upc2018.

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2. ★★★★★ artpollard

   8.7y ago

   I just installed this plugin. It does exactly what I want — but it is such a pain in the butt to use, I am looking for alternatives. Why do I say this? It shows a lot of articles that it found using my keywords in my newsfeed that I don’t want. That’s fine. I can edit the newsfeed. But, every time I delete a article from the newsfeed, the entire page refreshes. This takes forever. There is no way to simply click on the articles I want to keep and throw away the rest (or similar). Thus editing your newsfeed will take FOREVER ….. I was hoping there was an app so I could do it on my phone (that would be cool wouldn’t it?) but there isn’t one. That’s fine but this sure would be cool if they had a way to edit the newsfeed quickly and only show selected articles. But in the meantime, I hope I can find something comparable elsewhere.

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3. ★★★★★ below7

   9.2y ago

   The newplugin does exactly what it says it does and I easily created a newsfeed on my site after watching the how-to video on youtube. But, I have no influence over where it draws these links from. So the much more relevant websites in my niche are never touched but grossly irrelevant sites that have nothing to do with my niche are grabbed merely because of a keyword. Also, I don’t like the format. I would prefer that the newsfeed pull in an image from the linked article. but it doesn’t and leaves the news feed looking like nothing more than a lengthy block of text on the page which I’m certain few people would want to scan through.

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4. ★★★★★ imbossok

   9.5y ago

   Took the time to watch the videos, installed the plugin, activated it, but all you get is headlines and no snippet, looked for possible pro upgrade couldn’t find one so ended up deleting it and wasting my time!

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5. ★★★★★ Himanshu

   9.6y ago

   The plugin is awesome and working good i like it and given full rating of 5 Hi, Last week via WordPress support system, plugins and throw web site there is no support and revert received from your side. due to reason going to un-install the plugin, and d grade rating 5 to 3 Thanks Regards Himanshu This topic was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by Himanshu. Reason: worst customer service

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6. ★★★★★ alimay666

   10.6y ago

   Excellent plugin, easy to use and thanks to the options available for adding keywords it pulls pretty much exactly what news stories I want it to.

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7. ★★★★★ WP4MEDC

   11.4y ago

   This was great. Easy to use. Unlike lots of other feed services which require me to pick and choose RSS feeds this service scans and indexes thousands of sites and then all I need to do is pick the keywords. So I get relevant news from everywhere and not just a few places. Nice work!

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

1. High · 8.8 NewsPlugin <= 1.0.18 – Cross-Site Request Forgery to Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2021-07-21 CVE-2021-34631 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.0.18 Patched in 1.1.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8.1

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-02-08 500+ → 400+ down after 5 days in tier
2. 2026-02-03 400+ → 500+ up after 4 days in tier
3. 2026-01-30 500+ → 400+ down after 264 days in tier
4. 2025-05-11 600+ → 500+ down after 265 days in tier
5. 2024-08-19 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
6. 2024-08-18 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2024-08-17 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-08-16 600+ → 700+ up after 8 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).

• Beamer – newsfeed and push notifications 200+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags D
• News 100+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
• C Custom News Widget 20+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
• XML Sitemap & Google News 100K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A
• WP RSS Aggregator – RSS Import, Feed to Post, Autoblogging, AI Content 40K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
• Blog Designer Pack – Blog, Post Grid, Post Slider, Post Carousel, Category Post, News 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A

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NewsPlugin: 400+ active installs, 3.3★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/newsplugin