Page Excerpts for WordPress Three
by Adam Harley (Kawauso) · Uncategorized
Add excerpts to pages the WordPress 3.x way. Less code, less overhead.
41 health vs 56 average across 11,351 Uncategorized plugins
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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 5621 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
13
now · peak 58
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
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-02-10 20+ → 10+ down after 374 days in band
- 2025-02-01 30+ → 20+ down after 5 days in band
- 2025-01-27 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in band
- 2025-01-25 30+ → 20+ down after 291 days in band
- 2024-04-09 40+ → 30+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-04-07 30+ → 40+ up after 10 days in band
- 2024-03-28 40+ → 30+ down after 290 days in band
- 2023-06-12 50+ → 40+ down after 116 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Excerpts for Pages 500+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D - P Page Excerpts 100+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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WP-PageNavi 500K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag C -
Nested Pages 90K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Display Posts – Easy lists, grids, navigation, and more 80K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag C - I Insert Pages 40K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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