Protect RSS
by silence · Content & Feeds
A plugin to protect rss feeds to only registered users with http authentication.
41 health vs 60 average across 495 Content & Feeds 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 16+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8, 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 5975 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
50
now · peak 155
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2023-12-28 20+ → 10+ down after 105 days in band
- 2023-09-14 10+ → 20+ up after 4 days in band
- 2023-09-10 20+ → 10+ down after 42 days in band
- 2023-07-30 10+ → 20+ up after 5 days in band
- 2023-07-25 20+ → 10+ down after 46 days in band
- 2023-06-09 10+ → 20+ up after 4 days in band
- 2023-06-05 20+ → 10+ down after 61 days in band
- 2023-04-05 10+ → 20+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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PPWP – Password Protect Pages 30K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
RSS Importer 30K+ installs · 3.0★ · 1 shared tag D -
GN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
RSS for Yandex Turbo 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag B - D Disable Feeds 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag D
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