Syndicate Press
by SP developer · Content & Feeds
Syndicate Press lets you include RSS, RDF or Atom feeds directly in your Wordpress posts, pages, widgets or theme.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈170 estimated
Momentum
+8%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “atom”, “feed” and “rdf” 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.
45 health vs 64 average across 1,195 Content & Feeds plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.2%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 61.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Content & Feeds plugin keeps 0.8%, across 864 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Content & Feeds plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
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 4.9.35, well behind 6.8.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3204 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.9.35; the current branch is 6.8
4.2★ over 5 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3204 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
38
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 21d
17%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 21d
-0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| atom your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| feed your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| rdf your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| rss your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| syndicate your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
6 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 6 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “atom”, “feed” and “rdf” 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.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 315 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
8.8y ago
latest release · v1.0.33.2 · 23 Jan 2018
16
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 6 months ago; the previous band took 23 months to cross, which places it about 73% of the way through.
Install history since 18 Sep 2015
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ g.cqd8.3y ago
According to my use of RSS, this plugin provides enough options and functionalities as I need. However there are maybe few bugs like feeds name that can’t contain another feed name whereas I add something else. In fact, it lacks a way (like a checkbox) to hide each information : feed name, author, copyright, price, image, timestamp, body… Yeah, I use only titles. #minimalism
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ leninkster10.8y ago
Plugin does not work on multi-site (WPMU) Plugin cannot be network activated (loses the ability to manage feeds on all sites) When individually activated feeds are visible to all sites but only includes content on site 0 Developers website won’t accept comments because the Captcha is broken.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ david12.2y ago
Very easy to use plugin. Gets the job done well with a lot of customization options. The only negative I noticed is the page is slow to load (I have about 10 RSS feeds pulling in).
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ david12.2y ago
[please delete]
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Mattia Migliorini13.0y ago
It simply works. The problem is it is too simple. Feeds are separated, which means that this plugin shows posts from feed A, then posts from feed B, and so on.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ SRH13.2y ago
Easy to configure and it works. There may be “fancier” plugins with more options, but if you need one that works reliably, this is the one.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
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
3 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Syndicate Press lets you include RSS, RDF or Atom feeds directly in your Wordpress posts, pages, widgets or..."
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,086 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-04-30 200+ → 100+ down after 689 days in tier
- 2024-06-10 300+ → 200+ down after 493 days in tier
- 2023-02-03 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-02-02 300+ → 400+ up after 23 days in tier
- 2023-01-10 400+ → 300+ down after 98 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 500+ → 400+ down after 470 days in tier
- 2021-06-21 700+ → 500+ down after 293 days in tier
- 2020-09-01 800+ → 700+ down after 322 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).
- D Disable Feeds 20K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags D
- F FeedWordPress 8K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
- R RSS Just Better 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
- F Feed Template Customize 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D
- W WP Pubsubhubbub 100+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags
- F FeedWordPress Advanced Filters 100+ installs · 3.3★ · 3 shared tags D
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