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Simple Featured Image Column

by Andre Aguiar Villela · Admin & Utilities

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A simple plugin that displays the "Featured Image" column in admin post type listing. Supports Post, Pages and Custom Posts.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 54 average across 3,791 Admin & Utilities plugins

90+

Active installs

≈97 estimated

2.8K

Total downloads

since 2017

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+17%

74

Downloads · 30d

category median +23%

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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.26, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 1/100
WP compatibility 15/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2617 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 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+17% vs prior 30d
4Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

74

now · peak 143

7430d downloads · Sep 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

Simple Featured Imag · #16856 you Featured Image Colum · #4636 WEN Featured Image · #3807 Require Featured Ima · #3876

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.

822per 1k installs · Sep 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “90+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
90–100 ≈97

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

At the current install trend, crossing 100+ in roughly 555 days.

Install history · since 2021-09-03 · 1,384 observations

90Installs · Sep 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
1.0.7
Last updated
7.2y ago
Added
2017-11-25 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
5.2.26
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Andre Aguiar Villela
    8.7y ago

    Helped me out upon my clients request for a fast preview of the post’s featured image.

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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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

Portuguese (Brazil) 66%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-10 100+ → 90+ down after 102 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-30 90+ → 100+ up after 16 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-14 100+ → 90+ down after 7 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-07 90+ → 100+ up after 74 days in tier
  5. 2025-12-23 100+ → 90+ down after 12 days in tier
  6. 2025-12-11 90+ → 100+ up after 39 days in tier
  7. 2025-11-02 100+ → 90+ down after 26 days in tier
  8. 2025-10-07 90+ → 100+ up after 4 days in tier

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