SM Recent Post
by Mahabubur Rahman · Admin & Utilities
SM Recent Post is a wordpress widget plugin to display Recent Posts in site sidebar.
41 health vs 53 average across 3,047 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.28, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3189 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
51
now · peak 154
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
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “—”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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WP Popular Posts 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Category Posts Widget 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A - U Ultimate Posts Widget 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
- N Newpost Catch 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags B
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Flexible Posts Widget 7K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/sm-recent-posts" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="SM Recent Post — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> SM Recent Post: — active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/sm-recent-posts