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Simple Pull Quote

by llamaman · Uncategorized

The Simple Pull Quote WordPress Plugin provides an easy way for you to insert pull quotes into your posts and pages.

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Health

B 74/100

no flags

Active installs

1K+

≈1.5K estimated

Momentum

+12%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “quotation” and “quotes” 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.

How scoring works →
74 Health · B
Maintenance 65/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100
Security 98/100

74 health vs 58 average across 25,755 Uncategorized plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.2%

of downloads still active

At least 1K of 85.3K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.

Details

Version
1.6.4
Last updated
11mo ago
Added
2009-04-23 · 17 yrs old
Requires WP
2.5
Tested up to
6.6.11
Requires PHP
7.2.5

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.

79 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Rating quality

Update recency 73/100

Updated 342 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 88/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.6.11; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 63/100

4.2★ over 10 reviews, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+12% vs prior 30d
231 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 2K · peaks are release surges

6231 Nov 2026

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 Pull Quote · #6010youNice Quotes Rotator · #17757Insert Callout · #23193Display a Quote · #28101

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.21 Nov 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

741 Nov 2026

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.

6231 Nov 2026

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

1

releases in the last 12 months

11mo ago

latest release · v1.6.4 · 24 Nov 2025

8

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.6.4 · 24 Nov 20251.6.3 · 13 Aug 20241.6 · 8 Aug 20241.4 · 6 Apr 20141.0 · 18 Mar 20100.2.4 · 27 Apr 20090.2.3 · 27 Apr 20090.2.1 · 27 Apr 2009

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 64% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.6 64%
v1.5 31%
Older / other versions 4.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.5K

Crossed into this band 23 months ago; the previous band took 21 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 19 Mar 2015

1K1 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ lucky2deep
    6.4y ago

    I was able to install but got an error. “Failed to load plugin url: http etc.”

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ David
    7.2y ago

    I tweaked the CSS a little bit on my Cpannel an it looks great!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ gokhandag
    8.7y ago

    Yazdıklarınızı vurgulama açısından başarılı.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ beaufortcomputerrepair
    10.2y ago

    I’ve been using for a couple of years and it does exactly what is says it will do with no conflicts on a variety of systems and in conjunction with an assortment of other plugins. Kudos to the author!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ auludag
    10.6y ago

    thanks for plugin. it works. though if you need customizations, you had to be more than beginner since it needs CSS knowledge.

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  6. ★★★★★ AJ Don
    10.6y ago

    Doesn’t do anything. No visual button, shortcode doesn’t have any effect.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  7. ★★★★★ Andrew
    11.5y ago

    Instant install and — boom! — it works, first try. Editing the CSS was (mostly) simple. I’m not sure why I had to call the style body .simplePullQuote instead of just .simplePullQuote, but hey, it works.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  8. ★★★★★ mpozo
    11.6y ago

    It works fine, thanks!

    Read on wp.org ↗

Security history

via Wordfence Intelligence

The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (1.6.4). Sites still on an older version should update.

  1. 2025-10-23 CVE-2025-62985 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.6.3 Patched in 1.6.4

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

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

5 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "The Simple Pull Quote WordPress Plugin provides an easy way for you to insert pull quotes into your posts a..."
  • ! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use it"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gutenberg.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 3 headings and 1 list.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 1,291 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 4 tags appear in the text; "quotation" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-11-30 2K+ → 1K+ down after 615 days in tier
  2. 2023-03-26 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-03-25 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2023-03-24 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2023-03-23 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2023-03-22 3K+ → 2K+ down after 470 days in tier
  7. 2021-12-07 4K+ → 3K+ down after 486 days in tier
  8. 2020-08-08 5K+ → 4K+ down after 260 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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Simple Pull Quote: 1K+ active installs, 4.2★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/simple-pull-quote

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