GS Posts Widget
by GS Plugins · Admin & Utilities
Best Responsive WordPress Posts Widget Plugin to display latest Posts elegantly.
67 health vs 58 average across 1,339 Admin & Utilities plugins
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.
Well optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 444 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
47
now · peak 361
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-03-09 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-03-08 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in band
- 2026-03-06 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-03-05 200+ → 300+ up after 12 days in band
- 2026-02-21 300+ → 200+ down after 449 days in band
- 2024-11-29 400+ → 300+ down after 294 days in band
- 2024-02-09 500+ → 400+ down after 10 days in band
- 2024-01-30 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- R Recent Posts by Category Widget 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags D
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Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A -
Category Posts Widget 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A - N Newpost Catch 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
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Flexible Posts Widget 7K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags D -
Collapsing Categories 4K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/posts-widget" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="GS Posts Widget — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> GS Posts Widget: 200+ active installs, 5.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/posts-widget