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Post Tiles

by ethanhackett · Uncategorized

Post Tiles gives the ability to display posts as tiles. The tiles are color coded by category. The appearance is similar to windows 8 (Windows Metro).

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
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48 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 83/100
Support 70/100

48 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.0, 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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 82/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4297 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

+47% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

66

now · peak 95

6930d 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 Tiles · #9664 you Blog-in-Blog · #7473 Shortcodes Ultimate · #145 MW WP Form · #272

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.5Stars · 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.

173per 1k installs · Aug 26

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

11.8y ago

latest release · v1.4.6

20

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4.6 · 11.8y ago1.4.5 · 11.8y ago1.4.4 · 11.8y ago1.4.3 · 11.8y ago1.4.2 · 11.9y ago1.4.1 · 11.9y ago1.4.0 · 11.9y ago1.3.8 · 11.9y ago1.3.7 · 13.6y ago1.3.6 · 13.6y ago1.3.5 · 13.6y ago1.3.4 · 13.6y ago1.3.2 · 13.9y ago1.3.1 · 13.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 97% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.4 97%
v1.3 3.3%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈450

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

Install history · since 2015-08-20 · 1,421 observations

400Installs · 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
1.4.6
Last updated
11.8y ago
Added
2011-12-30 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.0.0
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. AberrationClub
    10.6y ago

    Me petó la web al instalarlo. No muestra nada, me la bloquea por completo y pantallazo en blanco. Not run in my web (new version of wp).

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  2. Toni
    10.8y ago

    I have had to wrestle with settings in other plugins to get any results – This plugin creates great results with just the simple shortcode. If you choose to customize it’s easy and straight forward. The category ids are listed in the settings page – excellent! I love the color wheel and ability to color by category with the key. Such an elegant solution! I have many posts without images so this solution is ideal because the tiles with text look cool, and adds a nice mix with images. Thank you for your hard work to provide a simple to use, very cool, plugin.

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  3. alex.alp
    10.8y ago

    this a very cool post slide plugin, but it seems this plugin has no longer support or has been abandoned…the demo site is gone and there are many answered support tickets. It would be really a shame if this is case, i want to have it updated and keep using it I hope to hear from the dev soon to know the actual plugin state thanks for the plugin btw!

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  4. iwmi-webmaster
    11.6y ago

    Very useful way to show news in a more visually pleasing style.

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  5. denicocc
    11.6y ago

    What to say? A great freemium plugin and many thanks to author for this.

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  6. creativevegans
    11.7y ago

    This plugin is great! I needed one for a recipe index on my blog and this plugin does the job very well! I simply made a page for each category and inserted the shortcode for only that category on the page. New posts are added automatically as they are published. Had no problems thus far. The only thing I would like is more customization options: Sorting, other sizes and shapes, other ways to display the title, etc. However, I am satisfied with the plugin as it is. If you want to see it in action, you can check out my blog at [ link redacted, please do not post links in reviews ]

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  7. s3korea48
    12.0y ago

    I hope to see sorting options in the next updates 🙂

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  8. yolandal
    12.0y ago

    no option to select number of tiles in a row?

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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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-02-11 500+ → 400+ down after 10 days in tier
  2. 2026-02-01 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-01-31 500+ → 400+ down after 55 days in tier
  4. 2025-12-07 400+ → 500+ up after 3 days in tier
  5. 2025-12-04 500+ → 400+ down after 366 days in tier
  6. 2024-12-03 600+ → 500+ down after 218 days in tier
  7. 2024-04-29 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-04-28 600+ → 700+ up after 2 days in tier

Competes with

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