Responsive News & Announcements
by Rupok · Uncategorized
An announcement plugin that shows your announcements/breaking news/offers/notice on top of the website.
45 health vs 57 average across 9,662 Uncategorized 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 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4910 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
44
now · peak 151
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 “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-09-15 30+ → 20+ down after 444 days in band
- 2024-06-28 40+ → 30+ down after 420 days in band
- 2023-05-05 50+ → 40+ down after 14 days in band
- 2023-04-21 40+ → 50+ up after 14 days in band
- 2023-04-07 50+ → 40+ down after 14 days in band
- 2023-03-24 40+ → 50+ up after 46 days in band
- 2023-02-06 50+ → 40+ down after 18 days in band
- 2023-01-19 40+ → 50+ up after 32 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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T4B News Ticker – Responsive News Scroller, Slider, and Animations 7K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
TopNewsWp – Display Tikcer News, RSS Feed Widget and Many More 800+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
Site Announcements 300+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
Jquery news ticker 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D - A AT News Scroller 70+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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