Powerkit – Supercharge your WordPress Site

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

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.

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.

65 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 9 listed. 56 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 34% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 8 months ago and the previous band took 3.8 years to cross, so the real count is still just under 20K.

1. ★★★★★ JAHM

   3.2y ago

   It’s making the wordpress site powerfull. I have a suggestion, please make the html content generated from the plugin like social links, buttons valid with accessiblity features would be great.

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2. ★★★★★ sackgeld

   4.6y ago

   Thanks for your work!

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3. ★★★★★ soulipsyz

   4.9y ago

   Slider doesn’t work.

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4. ★★★★★ maik2558

   5.4y ago

   Love it! Thank you 🙂

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5. ★★★★★ alikgriffin

   6.1y ago

   The plugin is pretty good with the integration of everything, especially if your theme takes advantage of it. Some of the features are lazy and don’t work well. The Tiled, or Justified Gallery is very poorly done. It crops your images and requires a mix of horizontal and vertical images for it to look halfway decent. It would be actually useful if they implemented it more like Jetpack does the tiled galleries. It’s a shame because their gallery looks really nice and clean. For SEO it would also be nice if the images from the featured posts on the sidebar ware scaled properly.

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6. ★★★★★ rbreitkreutz

   6.4y ago

   LOVE this plugin. It came bundled with one of my last themes and now I will use it on every site I build going forward. It’s awesome that you can select which features to turn on and off depending what you need. Lazy load is great. My fav feature is the ability to add table of contents to my longer posts Super handy and user friendly – two thumbs up! Oh for the developers, if you’re reading these – I wish there were a little more documentation for using this plugin when it isn’t integrated with a theme already. Thanks! This topic was modified 6 years ago by Yui. This topic was modified 6 years ago by Yui. Reason: review link removed

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7. ★★★★★ samtronic

   6.7y ago

   Please replace Magnific Popup with Photoswipe by the same author but mobile friendly. I’m interested in your themes. Can you create demos with background images with opacity overlay? Thanks!

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8. ★★★★★ jonatha

   6.8y ago

   no words, just go download and see for yourself! This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by jonatha.

   Read on wp.org ↗

Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 3.1.0 Improved PHP 8.1–8.3 compatibility: prevented a fatal error that could occur when a third-party plugin registers an invalid callback on a WordPress user-query hook (e.g. pre_user_query). The user lookup now fails safe in 3.1.0
2. — Version 3.0.9 Security fix: patched Stored XSS in the Slider and Justified Gallery shortcode attributes (attribute values are now escaped on output — same class of issue as CVE-2026-2390) Security fix: added a capability check to the 3.0.9
3. — Version 3.0.8 Added compatibility with WordPress 7.0 Moved all Powerkit settings pages under a single Powerkit menu (fixes duplicate “Fonts” and “Connect” menu items in WordPress 7.0) Improved security and code quality: output escapin 3.0.8
4. — Version 3.0.7 Security improvement: apply esc_attr() to all attribute values in Lazy Load image reconstruction (defense in depth, follow-up to CVE-2026-2390) 3.0.7
5. — Version 3.0.6 Improved performance: Tippy script is now loaded only for logged-in users 3.0.6
6. — Version 3.0.5 Security fix: patched Stored XSS vulnerability in Lazy Load (CVE-2026-2390) Fixed Post Views: Google OAuth token no longer expires every 60 minutes 3.0.5

All 7 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (3.1.1). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 6.4 Powerkit <= 3.0.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Lazy Load Image Processing ↗
   2026-09-06 CVE-2026-2390 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.0.4 Patched in 3.0.5
2. Patched Medium · 6.4 Powerkit – Supercharge your WordPress Site <= 3.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2026-08-05 CVE-2026-28178 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.1.0 Patched in 3.1.1
3. Patched Medium · 6.4 Powerkit <= 3.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'style' Shortcode Attribute ↗
   2026-07-31 CVE-2026-15644 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.1.0 Patched in 3.1.1
4. Patched Medium · 6.4 Powerkit <= 3.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode Attributes ↗
   2026-07-31 CVE-2026-15649 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.1.0 Patched in 3.1.1
5. Patched Medium · 6.4 Powerkit <= 3.1.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'nav' Shortcode Attribute ↗
   2026-07-31 CVE-2026-15645 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 3.1.0 Patched in 3.1.1
6. Patched Medium · 6.4 Powerkit – Supercharge your WordPress Site <= 2.9.1 - Authenticated(Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode ↗
   2024-04-05 CVE-2024-2458 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 2.9.1 Patched in 2.9.2
7. Patched High · 8.8 Powerkit < 2.5.9 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2022-01-11 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects < 2.5.9 Patched in 2.5.9

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 3 languages, 1 at 90% or more

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.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-03-16 20K+ → 10K+ down after 1401 days in tier
2. 2022-05-15 10K+ → 20K+ up after 536 days in tier
3. 2020-11-25 6K+ → 10K+ up after 352 days in tier
4. 2019-12-09 5K+ → 6K+ up after 48 days in tier
5. 2019-10-22 4K+ → 5K+ up after 92 days in tier
6. 2019-07-22 3K+ → 4K+ up

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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Powerkit – Supercharge your WordPress Site: 10K+ active installs, 4.5★ (14 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/powerkit