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PlanetPlanet – RSS feed aggregator

by seindal · Content & Feeds

Also makes 1 other plugin · 20+ installs across the portfolio →

Convert a WordPress site into an RSS/Atom feed aggregator like the old 'planet' software.

Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 49/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

10+

≈17 estimated

Momentum

0%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “feed aggregator” and “rss” 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.

How scoring works →
49 Health · D
Maintenance 15/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

49 health vs 64 average across 1,193 Content & Feeds plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.3%

of downloads still active

At least 10 of 3.5K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Content & Feeds plugin keeps 0.8%, across 864 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Content & Feeds plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
2.6y ago
Added
2021-12-30 · 4 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
6.5.14
Requires PHP
7.4

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.

57 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 23/100

Updated 953 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 77/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.5.14; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 51/100

5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 84/100

3 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 953 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

0% vs prior 30d
130 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 161 · peaks are release surges

4831 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ 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 21 Oct 2026.

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

4931 Oct 2026

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.

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

2.6y ago

latest release · v1.1 · 22 Mar 2024

9

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 22 Mar 20241.0 · 8 Nov 20230.19 · 23 Jul 20230.18 · 26 Feb 20230.17 · 3 Dec 20220.16 · 5 Nov 20220.15 · 5 Jan 20220.14 · 5 Jan 20220.13 · 30 Dec 2021

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈17

Crossed into this band 4 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 69% of the way through.

Install history since 4 Oct 2022

1031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ BinaryDigit
    2.8y ago

    This is a fantastic plugin! Much easier than any RSS widget out there, because it truly imports posts and even deletes after a set time period. Fantastic work!

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.5

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more

English (UK) 64%
German (Formal) 9%

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

5 of 8 pass · checked 25 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Convert a WordPress site into an RSS/Atom feed aggregator like the old 'planet' software."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you want"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WP-CLI.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 3 headings and 3 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 3,815 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text All 3 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-10 20+ → 10+ down after 12 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-28 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-27 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in tier
  4. 2026-06-25 10+ → 20+ up after 7 days in tier
  5. 2026-06-18 20+ → 10+ down after 99 days in tier
  6. 2026-03-11 30+ → 20+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2026-03-10 20+ → 30+ up after 4 days in tier
  8. 2026-03-06 30+ → 20+ down after 1 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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PlanetPlanet – RSS feed aggregator: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/planetplanet

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