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Recent Comments Widget with Excerpts

by Corey Salzano · Admin & Utilities

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Duplicates the built-in Recent Comments widget and adds functionality to display comment excerpts instead of post titles

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
80 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

80 health vs 54 average across 3,792 Admin & Utilities plugins

40+

Active installs

≈47 estimated

5.7K

Total downloads

since 2010

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

+13%

181

Downloads · 30d

category median +20%

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.

88 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+13% vs prior 30d
6Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

181

now · peak 176

17630d 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

Recent Comments Widg · #21171 you Recent Comments Widg · #14105 Better WordPress Rec · #8696 Customized Recent Co · #14702

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.

4.4Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v1.0.1

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.1 · 2mo ago1.0.0 · 3.0y ago0.111017 · 14.9y ago0.111012 · 14.9y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 53% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 53%
v0.111017 47%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈47

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

Install history · since 2015-10-17 · 1,385 observations

40Installs · 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.

Ratings · 0 reviews

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Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
2mo ago
Added
2010-11-13 · 15 yrs old
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.3.1

✓ 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. 2026-07-12 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-07-11 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-07-10 50+ → 40+ down after 14 days in tier
  4. 2026-06-26 40+ → 50+ up after 13 days in tier
  5. 2026-06-13 50+ → 40+ down after 197 days in tier
  6. 2025-11-28 60+ → 50+ down after 4 days in tier
  7. 2025-11-24 50+ → 60+ up after 10 days in tier
  8. 2025-11-14 60+ → 50+ down after 187 days in tier

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