Reco Widget
by Plux Stahre · Admin & Utilities
A small plugin to show a realtime widget from the Swedish site reco.se. At the moment you must contact reco.se to be able to use this plugin.
41 health vs 57 average across 1,446 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34, 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 3844 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
50
now · peak 164
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 “60+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
At the current install trend, crossing 70+ in roughly 545 days.
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
- 2026-07-10 70+ → 60+ down after 40 days in band
- 2026-05-31 60+ → 70+ up after 16 days in band
- 2026-05-15 70+ → 60+ down after 9 days in band
- 2026-05-06 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-05 70+ → 60+ down after 54 days in band
- 2026-03-12 60+ → 70+ up after 31 days in band
- 2026-02-09 70+ → 60+ down after 3 days in band
- 2026-02-06 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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WP Popular Posts 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 1 shared tag A
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