Recipe of the Day
by PResponsive · Admin & Utilities
Plugin "Recipe of the Day" displays categorized recipes on your blog. There are over 20,000 recipes in 40 categories.
41 health vs 54 average across 2,352 Admin & Utilities 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, 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 4157 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
52
now · peak 168
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.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
No band crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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WP Recipe Maker 50K+ installs · 4.9★ · 3 shared tags A -
Cooked – Recipe Management 3K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B -
Recipe Card Blocks Lite 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
WP Delicious – Recipe Plugin for Food Bloggers (formerly Delicious Recipes) 4K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Delisho – Recipe Widgets and Blocks 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
Recipe Block 700+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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