Truncate Recent Posts Titles
by pmclain · Admin & Utilities
Recent Posts Widget with truncated post titles.
45 health vs 54 average across 3,761 Admin & Utilities 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, 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 3517 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 · 1,382 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
40
now · peak 157
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-05-16 30+ → 20+ down after 310 days in tier
- 2024-07-10 40+ → 30+ down after 11 days in tier
- 2024-06-29 30+ → 40+ up after 18 days in tier
- 2024-06-11 40+ → 30+ down after 151 days in tier
- 2024-01-12 30+ → 40+ up after 72 days in tier
- 2023-11-01 40+ → 30+ down after 214 days in tier
- 2023-04-01 30+ → 40+ up after 106 days in tier
- 2022-12-16 40+ → 30+ down after 13 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- T TW Recent Posts Widget 1K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag D
- T Text Truncator 10+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag D
- E Empty Widget Areas 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D
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MZD Recent Posts — installs · 3.6★ · 1 shared tag D
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