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rss scroller

by gopiplus · Content & Feeds

This plugin will display RSS feed with simple scroller or ticker. It gradually reveals each item into view from left to right.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 5/100
Rating quality 72/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 70 average across 232 Content & Feeds plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.10.

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.

46 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 11/100
WP compatibility 46/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1324 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-56% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

57

now · peak 169

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

rss scroller · #13241 MouseWheel Smooth Sc · #468 RSS Importer · #1076 GN Publisher: Google · #1299

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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈140

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations

Details

Version
8.1
Last updated
3.6y ago
Added
2009-09-21 · 16 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.4
Tested up to
6.1.10
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-25 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
  2. 2026-06-24 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in band
  3. 2026-06-21 200+ → 100+ down after 5 days in band
  4. 2026-06-16 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
  5. 2026-06-15 200+ → 100+ down after 519 days in band
  6. 2025-01-12 300+ → 200+ down after 206 days in band
  7. 2024-06-20 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in band
  8. 2024-06-18 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in band

Competes with

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rss scroller: 100+ active installs, 4.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/rss-scroller