Simple News and Slider

A quick, easy and simple way to add an News custom post type, vertical scrolling news list to Wordpress. Also work with Gutenberg shortcode block.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 59 average across 1,800 Media plugins

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Active installs

≈0 estimated

1.4K

Total downloads

since 2020

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-53%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.4.19.

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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100

WP compatibility 19/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2227 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

-53% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 168

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 News and Slid · #46514 News Announcement Sc · #4688 News, Magazine and B · #19586 Custom News Widget · #25960

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “—”. The real number sits in this band.

modeled estimate

0–0 ≈0

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 1.1.0
Last updated: 6.1y ago
Added: 2020-06-11 · 6 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 4.0
Tested up to: 5.4.19
Requires PHP: 7.0

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Growth timeline

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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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