Page in Widget
by airspray · Admin & Utilities
A tiny plugin that displays a page content in a widget.
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Health
D 48/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈1.7K estimated
Momentum
+8%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “page” and “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.
48 health vs 56 average across 5,896 Admin & Utilities plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.3%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 43.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,187 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 4.5.33, well behind 6.8.
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 3259 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.5.33; the current branch is 6.8
4.9★ over 8 reviews, smoothed to 4.21★ and held back under 25 reviews
2 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3259 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.
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.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| page your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| widget your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “page” and “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 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 319 · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
10.3y ago
latest release · v1.3 · 2 Aug 2016
4
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 90% 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 “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 71% of the way through.
Install history since 9 May 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ chirayu.emphatic9.1y ago
Good plugin Support in 4.8.1, like
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Pon9.8y ago
Works exactly the way I wanted! I love it!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ zzmonty11.4y ago
Just wanted to let others know that even though this plugin has not been updated in 2 years, it still works as of June 2015 with the most recent version of WordPress. I like this one better than “pages in widget”, because this one uses the theme’s style for the widget title, where “pages in widget” does not. The title has to be typed again, but that is no big deal.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ zeonos12.3y ago
This is also a nice way to add themed styles to the widget area. since you can use the page styles and advance editors. and it still works!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Grego60613.0y ago
Just what I needed. I customized the plugin to show the title of the page: after line 47, I added: $permalink = get_permalink( $page_id ); $myTitle = '<a href="' . get_permalink($page_id) . '" rel="bookmark" title="' . strip_tags(get_the_title($page_id)) . '">' . get_the_title($page_id) . '</a>'; and at the new line 67, I changed “$title” to $myTitle Now if I could just get the “read more” to work…
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ fabianfraser13.5y ago
I use this plug-in along with Visual Composer to get amazing custom designed content on the front page of my clients site. Words well for me!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Zurd14.0y ago
Lets you put a WordPress Page into a widget, awesome, many thanks!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ sandswimmer14.0y ago
Beautiful solution, great for people which are not allowed near the widget area and are only allowed to edit the content of pages! Buckets of thank you!
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
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.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
2 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "A tiny plugin that displays a page content in a widget."
- ! 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 Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 315 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 2 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-16 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-07-14 1K+ → 2K+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-07-10 2K+ → 1K+ down after 731 days in tier
- 2024-07-09 3K+ → 2K+ down after 525 days in tier
- 2023-01-31 4K+ → 3K+ down after 319 days in tier
- 2022-03-18 5K+ → 4K+ down after 478 days in tier
- 2020-11-25 9K+ → 5K+ down after 1656 days in tier
- 2016-05-14 10K+ → 9K+ down
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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Blocksy Companion 300K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Black Studio TinyMCE Widget 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Table of Contents Plus – Automatic Table of Contents for Posts & Pages 200K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A -
Post Type Switcher 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A -
Simple Page Ordering 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A - P Page Links To 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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