The Future Is Now
by xjlin0 · Booking & Events
Allow future-time-stamped posts to appear live on your site immediately.
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Health
B 77/100
no flags
Active installs
1K+
≈1.7K estimated
Momentum
+28%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “future posts” and “now” to your wp.org tags. You rank #4 and #12 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
77 health vs 69 average across 1,839 Booking & Events plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.6%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 38.9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Booking & Events plugin keeps 0.8%, across 941 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Booking & Events 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 19 releases 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
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Well tuned across the board
Updated 266 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11, the current branch or newer
4.7★ over 14 reviews, smoothed to 4.23★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
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.
34
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 25d
7%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 25d
-0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| future your tag | #4 | #8 | up 1 |
| future posts | #4 | #9 | 0 |
| now | #12 | #17 | down 2 |
| future post | #6 | #14 | 0 |
| events your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| posts your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| time your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
16 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 4 listed. 12 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Add “future posts” and “now” to your wp.org tags. You rank #4 and #12 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 2.6K · peaks are release surges
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
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
19
releases in the last 12 months
9mo ago
latest release · v3.3.8 · 8 Feb 2026
21
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 36% 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 “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 11 months ago; the previous band took 2.9 years to cross, which places it about 69% of the way through.
Install history since 23 Apr 2016
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ baritono5mo ago
don’t work, update please
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Anonymous3.7y ago
I’ve been using this for years and it was great for my purposes, but agree that now using gutenberg editor, posts are marked future, so the plugin is no longer working.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ 7am4.9y ago
I liked this plugin. But it seems not working any longer. Too bad.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ mariken6.7y ago
If you just need a simple and light-weight solution for your events, this is the way to go. If your theme or page-builder does not give you the option to change the order of the future posts/events, do add ‘reorder post’ plugin, and you might also need ‘exclude from blog’.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ certainlyakey8.8y ago
Does what it says without much trouble or overhead.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Jakob Helmer9.2y ago
<!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>still works! even after 10 years! really happy with that, because our site is less or more depending on this small plugin …</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –> This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Jakob Helmer.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ sridhar.kadali10.2y ago
excellent
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ miquelinos10.2y ago
Es justo lo que buscaba
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1
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
2 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Allow future-time-stamped posts to appear live on your site immediately."
- ! 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 ("if you need"); say who the plugin is for and 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 934 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 4 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-12-03 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1073 days in tier
- 2022-12-26 3K+ → 2K+ down after 746 days in tier
- 2020-12-10 4K+ → 3K+ down after 333 days in tier
- 2020-01-12 5K+ → 4K+ down after 919 days in tier
- 2017-07-07 6K+ → 5K+ down
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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Reading Time WP 20K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
WP Missed Schedule Posts 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D -
Bulk Datetime Change 6K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
The Events Calendar 600K+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A -
GenerateBlocks 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Post Duplicator 200K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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