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Responsive News & Announcements

by Rupok · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 2.5K+ installs across the portfolio →

An announcement plugin that shows your announcements/breaking news/offers/notice on top of the website.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 16,380 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 56/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4956 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,428 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+46% vs prior 30d
-4Downloads · Sep 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

57

now · peak 151

5730d downloads · Sep 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

Responsive News & An · #26909 you Live News · #4360 T4B News Ticker · #2697 TopNewsWp · #7584

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.

2.9Kper 1k installs · Sep 26

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈29

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

Install history · since 2018-02-28 · 1,386 observations

20Installs · Sep 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
1.0
Last updated
13.6y ago
Added
2013-02-04 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. xzuve007
    11.6y ago

    this plugin only show complete article with scroll… how to show category box when input the article and post link to single page by category. in wordpress 3.7.5

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  2. WestEastonPA
    12.6y ago

    Does not work. Shows nothing on website. Others also report failure. Support non-existent. Don’t waste your time. Note one of the 5-star reviews was from the developer.

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  3. Mirko
    13.0y ago

    Easy to install and to customize! Thanks a lot!

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  4. w3xperts
    13.2y ago

    Loving the sliding of the news and also the date selection to limit the time is great.

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  5. Eity
    13.6y ago

    Worked fine. Thanks for the co-operation.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

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. 2025-09-15 30+ → 20+ down after 444 days in tier
  2. 2024-06-28 40+ → 30+ down after 420 days in tier
  3. 2023-05-05 50+ → 40+ down after 14 days in tier
  4. 2023-04-21 40+ → 50+ up after 14 days in tier
  5. 2023-04-07 50+ → 40+ down after 14 days in tier
  6. 2023-03-24 40+ → 50+ up after 46 days in tier
  7. 2023-02-06 50+ → 40+ down after 18 days in tier
  8. 2023-01-19 40+ → 50+ up after 32 days in tier

Competes with

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Responsive News & Announcements: 20+ active installs, 4.2★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/responsive-news-announcements