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by csiszi · Uncategorized

ad network, ads, advertising, widget, contextual, nrelate, outbrain, yarpp, taboola, money Requires at least: 1.8 Tested up to: 4.3.1 Stable tag: 1.6.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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43 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

43 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

51/100

Maintenance 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.
  • No tested-up-to version. The listing declares no "Tested up to" version.

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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 56/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3744 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-07 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+20% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

60

now · peak 149

6030d 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

Related Content by P · #36242 you Autoptimize · #77 WebP Express · #166 Responsive Lightbox · #321

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.5Stars · Aug 26

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.

6Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

10.3y ago

latest release · v1.6.1

31

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.6.1 · 10.3y ago1.6 · 10.3y ago1.5.8 · 10.5y ago1.5.7 · 10.6y ago1.5.6 · 10.6y ago1.5.5 · 10.8y ago1.5.4 · 10.8y ago1.5.3 · 11.2y ago1.5.2 · 11.2y ago1.5.1 · 11.7y ago1.5 · 11.7y ago1.4.4 · 11.8y ago1.4.6 · 11.8y ago1.4.5 · 11.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.6 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

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

Install history · since 2016-01-12 · 1,384 observations

10Installs · 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.

Details

Version
1.6.2
Last updated
10.3y ago
Added
2014-06-25 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
Tested up to
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. madonas30
    10.3y ago

    It gives redirecting issue by google , so i have to deactivate it . Kindly add a option , so that when people click on a post , it directly redirect to that page not via your site .

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  2. Chrisc2
    11.4y ago

    Plugz is more of a content recommendation service rather than “related” content service. No matter how much I tweaked the keywords and narrowed the categories the plugin still just displayed whatever random content it wanted to show on my site. My site is related to consumer gadgets and in the month or so that I was using the service I never once saw a link even remotely related to my niche. Mostly it is just stuff closely related to porn (girls in underwear etc), but today, the day I decided to remove the plugin, there was actual porn (an image of someone’s vagina.) How that is related to my niche I do not know, but my site is meant to be for all ages and I hope no one else has inadvertently seen those images in the past month.

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  3. NicolasTamayo
    11.8y ago

    I found a related posts plugin which works fine easy to use, customizable and looks good. Big thanks and keep up the great work!

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  4. LuisSReynolds
    12.0y ago

    I have tried some related posts plugins, but this one is the best!

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  5. robertmlovell
    12.0y ago

    After trying tons of plugins, I found this and thats the best! Easy to set up, nice and powerful, unlimited variations. I love the traffic exchange part. Has everything I needed. A++++

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  6. Prolificgrammar
    12.1y ago

    Not working, no support, feedback, not much documentation.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

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. 2023-07-09 20+ → 10+ down after 267 days in tier
  2. 2022-10-15 10+ → 20+ up after 7 days in tier
  3. 2022-10-08 20+ → 10+ down

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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