Post Tags Widget
by Jeff Farthing · Admin & Utilities
Display tags for the current post in a widget.
41 health vs 53 average across 2,970 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.25, 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 2724 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
31
now · peak 200
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 “80+”. 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-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-12-30 90+ → 80+ down after 11 days in tier
- 2025-12-19 80+ → 90+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2025-12-15 90+ → 80+ down after 104 days in tier
- 2025-09-02 100+ → 90+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Flexible Posts Widget 7K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D - U Ultimate Tag Cloud Widget 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
- C Configurable Tag Cloud (CTC) 2K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D
- T Taxonomy Dropdown Widget 2K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags B
- T Taxonomy List Widget 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
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Categorized Tag Cloud 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B
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