Send Images to RSS
by Robin Cornett · Email & Marketing
Also makes 3 other plugins · 17K+ installs across the portfolio →
Improve your RSS: for full text feeds, replace large site images with email friendly images. Customize summaries with images and beautiful excerpts.
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Health
D 51/100
Stale · Likely abandoned
Active installs
3K+
≈3.5K estimated
Momentum
+22%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “email”, “feed” and “images” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
51 health vs 66 average across 2,123 Email & Marketing plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →3.7%
of downloads still active
At least 3K of 80.9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Email & Marketing plugin keeps 0.9%, across 1,295 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Email & Marketing plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24.
Details
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.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2253 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 26 reviews, smoothed to 4.41★
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2253 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| email your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| feed your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| images your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| mailchimp your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| rss your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
3 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 3 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “email”, “feed” and “images” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 1.2K · peaks are release surges
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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
6.2y ago
latest release · v3.4.1 · 31 Aug 2020
19
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 95% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “3K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 18 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 13 Dec 2020
Latest updates
via wp.org changelogRecent releases and news for this plugin
- — Version 3.4.1 fixed: undefined function for sites running WordPress 4.9 3.4.1
- — Version 3.4.0 added: support for core gallery block updated: new minimum WordPress version 4.9 updated: new minimum PHP version 5.6.20 fixed: image IDs not being properly retrieved if the original image is larger than 2560 px wide 3.4.0
- — Version 3.3.2 fixed: error with external images/captions on full feeds 3.3.2
- — Version 3.3.1 fixed: overzealous tag stripping on excerpts (props @gretchenlouise for reporting) 3.3.1
- — Version 3.3.0 added: filter for the excerpt permalink added: filter to allow users to keep shortcodes in excerpts added: support for embeds in full text feeds changed: additional max-width set on images to help prevent overflow (props 3.3.0
- — Version 3.2.2 changed: link back to site from excerpt is now nofollow, but can be overridden via filter changed: added margin to excerpt style filter parameters 3.2.2
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 127 languages, 0 at 90% or more
Plus 103 more locales with partial translations.
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
7 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Improve your RSS: for full text feeds, replace large site images with email friendly images. Customize summ..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 14 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 13 of 14 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you have"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Yoast, Mailchimp.
- ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 3 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 3,383 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-05-07 4K+ → 3K+ down after 302 days in tier
- 2024-07-09 5K+ → 4K+ down after 375 days in tier
- 2023-06-30 6K+ → 5K+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2023-06-28 5K+ → 6K+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2023-06-23 6K+ → 5K+ down after 424 days in tier
- 2022-04-25 7K+ → 6K+ down after 834 days in tier
- 2020-01-12 6K+ → 7K+ up after 286 days in tier
- 2019-04-01 3K+ → 6K+ up after 704 days in tier
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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MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Mailchimp for WooCommerce 200K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B -
Mailchimp List Subscribe Form 60K+ installs · 2.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
GN Publisher: Google News Compatible RSS Feeds 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
RSS for Yandex Turbo 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
RSS Includes Pages 10K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags A
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