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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 60 average across 778 Content & Feeds plugins

40+

Active installs

≈47 estimated

2.6K

Total downloads

since 2012

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+24%

72

Downloads · 30d

category median +21%

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 14+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5249 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

+24% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

72

now · peak 146

7230d 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

Skip RSS · #21901 you RSS Feed Widget · #4692 Custom Simple Rss · #5111 Custom Categories RS · #41147

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.

1.8Kper 1k installs · Aug 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.

v0.6 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈47

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

Install history · since 2019-12-15 · 1,384 observations

40Installs · 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.

Ratings · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.6
Last updated
14.4y ago
Added
2012-04-17 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.2.1
Requires PHP
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  1. ★★★★★ Arun Basil Lal
    9.2y ago

    I love this plugin and I still use it in WordPress 4.8. Does one thing and does it very well. Thank you for writing this plugin!

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  2. ★★★★★ stevelock
    13.1y ago

    Does exactly what it should do! Nothing more, nothing less. Great lightweight plugin.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ 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. 2026-01-05 50+ → 40+ down after 44 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-22 40+ → 50+ up after 5 days in tier
  3. 2025-11-17 50+ → 40+ down after 158 days in tier
  4. 2025-06-12 60+ → 50+ down after 153 days in tier
  5. 2025-01-10 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2025-01-09 60+ → 70+ up after 4 days in tier
  7. 2025-01-05 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2025-01-04 60+ → 70+ up after 33 days in tier

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