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RSS Control

by Matt Pramschufer · Content & Feeds

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Control your sites RSS feeds with additional query param options.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
80 Health · B
Maintenance 91/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

80 health vs 60 average across 779 Content & Feeds plugins

300+

Active installs

≈350 estimated

8.0K

Total downloads

since 2019

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+38%

128

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

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.

88 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2024-08-28 · 730 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+38% vs prior 30d
10Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

128

now · peak 128

12830d downloads · Aug 28

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.

427per 1k installs · Aug 28

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

5mo ago

latest release · v4.0.0

21

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.0.0 · 5mo ago3.0.14 · 1.5y ago3.0.10 · 2.0y ago3.0.8 · 3.2y ago3.0.5 · 3.3y ago3.0.4 · 3.5y ago3.0.3 · 3.6y ago3.0.2 · 3.6y ago3.0.1 · 3.6y ago3.0.0 · 3.6y ago2.0.12 · 3.7y ago2.0.11 · 3.8y ago2.0.10 · 3.8y ago2.0.9 · 4.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 66% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v4.0 66%
v3.0 34%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
300–400 ≈350

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2022-11-28 · 6 observations

300Installs · 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.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
4.0.0
Last updated
5mo ago
Added
2019-09-24 · 6 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
6.7.7
Requires PHP
7.4
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Eric Shanfelt
    4.0y ago

    This is my go-to plugin for media companies wanting to use their RSS feeds for various purposes … especially for integrating RSS with email newsletters to better automate email sending. Excellent support, no compatibility issues, and the developer is willing to make updates and accept new feature requests as well.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. Medium · 6.1 Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get ↗
    2023-07-18 CVE-2023-33999 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects 2.0.2 - 3.0.5 Patched in 3.0.8

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

✓ 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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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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RSS Control: 300+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/rss-control