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SB Popular Posts Tabbed Widget

by Scott Bolinger · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 2 other plugins · 1.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

A lightweight, responsive, uncluttered widget to display popular posts, recent posts, and categories with tabs.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 54 average across 3,793 Admin & Utilities 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, 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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4118 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+106% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

70

now · peak 79

7030d 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

SB Popular Posts Tab · #15896 you WP Tab Widget · #1859 WP ULike · #662 Accordions · #1379

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.

700per 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

11.3y ago

latest release · v1.1

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 11.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 83% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.1 83%
v1.0 17%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

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

Install history · since 2019-08-26 · 1,383 observations

100Installs · 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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
11.3y ago
Added
2013-06-19 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
4.2.39
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. pecktron2000
    9.8y ago

    This is super easy to set up and use. It has a nice modern styling to it as well. Thanks!

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  2. mistacup
    11.2y ago

    I wanted to try this plugin and installed it. After this I activated it and put it on my sidebar. It was not that what I was looking for and deleted it on the widgets, but it doesn´t remove from the website. So I deactivated it and nothing happened because it was still visible at the frontpage. So the next step was deleting this plugin but it was still visible on the frontpage. I tried to clear my cache but nothing happened and it get a worse looking on the frontpage. Definitely bad working at this time!

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  3. CSSJockey - Mohit Aneja
    11.3y ago

    Installed this on a client website works like charm.. keep up the good work.

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  4. Mohammad Mursaleen
    12.6y ago

    A little more options can make this plugin awesome. But anyways its a good start.

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  5. ccsx
    13.0y ago

    If it can take the first image in the post as the thumbnail, it will be much better.

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  6. aprettierweb
    13.0y ago

    I’d like a few options to choose which tabs to display/not display but definitely works as described and resizes well.

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  7. Nikhil
    13.2y ago

    Simple and great plugin

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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. 2024-09-06 200+ → 100+ down after 490 days in tier
  2. 2023-05-05 300+ → 200+ 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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SB Popular Posts Tabbed Widget: 100+ active installs, 4.3★ (7 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/sb-popular-posts-tabbed-widget