Post Title Icons
by TWS · Uncategorized
Post Title Icons lets you set icons for all your blog posts. Either for all or for a specific category.
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Health
D 42/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈15 estimated
Momentum
0%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “font awesome”, “icon picker” and “icons” 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.
42 health vs 58 average across 25,734 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.2%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 4.2K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,768 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, well behind 6.8.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3673 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.2.39; the current branch is 6.8
2.7★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.02★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3673 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| font awesome your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| icon picker your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| icons your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| posts your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| titles your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “font awesome”, “icon picker” and “icons” 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.
Daily downloads
Since 6 Oct 2022 · 1,486 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 155 · peaks are release surges
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.
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 yearHow 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
10.1y ago
latest release · v1.3 · 10 Oct 2016
2
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2.8 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 5 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ WoTi9.1y ago
I’ve installed this plugin because I wanted an icon before every post title. I’ve 5 different categories for my articles (5 different games) and I wanted to have the game’s icon in front of the post title. That all worked well but … all of a sudden icons appear in the menus too! And not even the right icons and when I refresh the page the icons just change in another icon. So … for what it’s worth I love the effort that was once invested into this plugin but it doesn’t do what it has to. Actually it does but it also has some side effects.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ pepakura10.4y ago
Gret Idea, but it inserts images to every link on my site.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ TWS11.3y ago
Great plugin! This topic was modified 9 years, 9 months ago by TWS.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4
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
2 of 8 pass · checked 25 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Post Title Icons lets you set icons for all your blog posts. Either for all or for a specific category."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("A question that someone might have").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 328 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "Font Awesome", "icon picker" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2023-12-31 20+ → 10+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2023-12-24 10+ → 20+ up after 33 days in tier
- 2023-11-21 20+ → 10+ down after 24 days in tier
- 2023-10-28 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-10-27 20+ → 10+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2023-10-13 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-10-11 20+ → 10+ down after 13 days in tier
- 2023-09-28 10+ → 20+ up after 2 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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Better Font Awesome 60K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A - T TypePad emoji for TinyMCE 8K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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Spectre Icons 700+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
List all posts by Authors, nested Categories and Titles 600+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
GenerateBlocks 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Post Duplicator 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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