NewsPlugin

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

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.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

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.

1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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

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

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.

Crossed into this band 9 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ upc2018

   8.2y 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

   8.9y 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

   9.4y 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

   9.7y 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

   9.8y 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

   10.8y 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

   11.6y 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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The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (1.1.0). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched 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 Affects <= 1.0.18 Patched in 1.1.0

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

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).

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NewsPlugin: 400+ active installs, 3.3★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-02. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/newsplugin