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Post Content Shortcodes

by Curtiss Grymala · Uncategorized

Also makes 5 other plugins · 2.3K+ installs across the portfolio →

Adds shortcodes to display the content of a post or a list of posts.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 90/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 4.9.31, 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.

46 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 10/100
Rating quality 87/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3070 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+52% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

200

now · peak 316

19830d downloads · Aug 26

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

Post Content Shortco · #4457 you W4 Post List · #3819 Ultimate Post List · #4552 WP Sitemap Pages and · #5634

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · Aug 26

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.

99per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 91%
Older / other versions 9.4%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.5K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-22 · 1,454 observations

2KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.0.1.1
Last updated
8.4y ago
Added
2011-08-30 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
4.3
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Anonymous
    7.6y ago

    For Importing Content within a single blog : GREAT Plugin But for Multi-Blog to Blog use : First : images cannot be imported (except featured image … which is not of much interest). Content without imageS ? Second : I couldn’t edit the exported content, even after editing the original article. Even after deleting the article, the original version was still displayed in the destination blog. Some kind of cache effect ? Weird. Maybe I did something wrong … This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by minutepapillon. This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by minutepapillon. This topic was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by minutepapillon.

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  2. Exo
    7.9y ago

    Works perfectly straight after installing. Love it.

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  3. bartonwhite
    7.9y ago

    Not currently working and clearly no one is doing support on this plugin. This topic was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by bartonwhite.

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  4. username0077
    8.4y ago

    Magnificent! Awesome!! Stupendous!!! Developer should be Very Proud (Extremely). Significantly Helping to pull my multisite mess together-ish, right now as you read this. Not a “fake” review, see the live results at [link removed – please do not use reviews to promote your site.] (in a week or so of this plugins specific help…). I experienced some “fragility” with the excerpt_length on my mess of a WP implementation. Had to laboriously & incrementally try-and-error different excerpt lengths + network disable-reactivate the plugin each test cycle – per usage – to “reset” things, but Hey, that’s half the fun of WordPress! Simply Don’t use excerpt_length at all if you don’t specifically need it… Great work for 1.0! May Never-Ending Good Fortune Deservedly Rain like Waterdrops Upon Thee & Thy Kingdom Forever-more and Two Days! Will send some cash when I see it. This is from a Guy that NEVER writes reviews at all. Had to reset my WP password, after finding my username… Please Don’t Ever, Ever, Ever Stop working on this 5-STAR project. If you do, all my website templates will instantly shatter & die & take out a few innocent little baby kittens too… 🙁 This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by username0077. Reason: Forgot to add the Cinco Stars This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

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  5. harry murtie
    9.1y ago

    one word genius coder with crazy plugins, Other plugins are priced at hundreds of dollars, With a lousy ability like broad ** st plugin. I love wp-view feature integration tumb up make developers rich with donations, to keep plugins updated This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by harry murtie. This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by harry murtie.

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  6. the masked cat
    9.3y ago

    A savior for who need it. Period.

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  7. saigler
    9.5y ago

    Full content of multiple posts displayed in a single post. I’ve been trying for weeks to make this happen, and my friend even set me up with a work-around with special post types, (archive system) but it was still not meeting my needs. This works so perfectly! It adds the full content with a simple shortcode (or you could do excerpt if you prefer), and it even pulls content from posts in other sites within a multi-site without needing to broadcast the post between the sites. All the links in the original posts are coming through and working beautifully. Thank you to the author; I’m definitely sending a note and a donation your way once I get everything up and running!

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  8. Trinity7
    10.3y ago

    It is not certified for WP 4.4.2, but runs fine on my end. If it causes issues with other code I will revisit this review and let you know. Thanks. Nice work. Note: I have always liked the type-face font you selected as the list default. It makes really nice headers against transparent backgrounds, too.

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.0.1.1 Adds i18n and l10n features so the plugin can be properly translated in the future Attempts to fix errant PHP warning about string/array conversion ( h/t @codingbee ) 1.0.1.1
  2. Version 1.0.1 Fixes issue with the permalink that’s used in the “Read More” link on cross-site post lists Turns off debug message when site is installed on non-multisite install Update WP version compatibility Begin testing Gutenberg 1.0.1
  3. Version 1.0 Fixes PHP fatal error thanks to GitHub user @stefanogualdi Fixes other minor warnings and errors Adds plugin textdomain to all translatable strings Fixes some other minor PHP warnings Re-organizes code within plugin Fixe 1.0
  4. Version 0.6 Adds compatibility with Views plugin Adds new link_image attribute to wrap post thumbnail in a link (h/t @vince102, @MadManSam and @soft4tec) Adds new tax_term and tax_name attributes to help filter the list by taxonomy 0.6
  5. Version 0.5.5 Fixes issue that stopped widgets from working in WordPress 4.3 0.5.5
  6. Version 0.5 Fixes error when used in some multisite/non-multisite instances, due to improper checking for multisite Fixes bug that stopped the date from showing up in the Post List shortcode/widget Remove calls to old-style widget c 0.5

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Italian 77%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-02-22 3K+ → 2K+ down after 542 days in tier
  2. 2024-08-29 4K+ → 3K+ down after 484 days in tier
  3. 2023-05-03 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2023-05-02 4K+ → 5K+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2023-04-30 5K+ → 4K+ down

Competes with

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