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Show Content Only

by Zack Katz · Uncategorized

Also makes 18 other plugins · 12.8K+ installs across the portfolio →

Display only the post or page content, without a theme, sidebars, scripts or stylesheets.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 80/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized 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 4.0.38, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4366 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

+89% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

66

now · peak 69

6630d 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

Show Content Only · #12987 you Advanced Excerpt · #554 Special Text Boxes · #5163 WP Typograph Lite · #5739

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.

660per 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

12.0y ago

latest release · v1.3.1

6

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.3.1 · 12.0y ago1.3 · 12.0y ago1.2 · 12.0y ago1.1.1 · 15.0y ago1.1 · 16.5y ago1.0 · 16.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 93% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.3 93%
v1.2 7.4%

Estimated active installs

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

modeled estimate
100–200 ≈150

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

Install history · since 2015-04-02 · 1,385 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.

Details

Version
1.3.1
Last updated
12.0y ago
Added
2010-02-16 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
2.5
Tested up to
4.0.38
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. Hartmut
    10.1y ago

    Very usefull if you have to put the postdata into a modal. I used it when i print the links in the Datatable. To run that job i used Show Content Only plugin together with plugin JsDataTable and plugin Easy Fancybox.

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  2. aaaahosting
    10.3y ago

    I sometimes use pop-up forms that don’t require anything but the form code. They load much quicker (much – much quicker) with eveything else stripped but the form. Thank you so much for this handy time saver !

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  3. Toni
    12.5y ago

    Does what it claims without complexity, setup or configuring. Excellent and unique plugin. You will be hard pressed to find any other. I think there is nothing like it. I use it to add my other WordPress blogs as pages in my site. Iframes were hideous, unstable and awkward looking. Plus I can add navigation in the content page to better incorporate the pages into my sites. Very pleased! Thank you!

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  4. Neoras
    13.8y ago

    Does exactly what it is supposed to do – strip any css or js code Thanks!

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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. 2026-08-31 200+ → 100+ down after 679 days in tier
  2. 2024-10-21 300+ → 200+ down after 623 days in tier
  3. 2023-02-06 400+ → 300+ down after 8 days in tier
  4. 2023-01-29 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2023-01-28 400+ → 300+ 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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