LAPDI Featured Categories
by Sharron Denice · Media
Featured Categories allows you to add featured categories with images to your blog's website.
44 health vs 62 average across 1,162 Media plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.17.
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 1985 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
15
now · peak 73
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,374 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-06-13 20+ → 10+ down after 153 days in band
- 2024-01-12 30+ → 20+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Category Posts Widget 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Media Library Categories 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
No category parents 6K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D - R Recent Posts by Category Widget 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
- C Custom Recent Posts Widget 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
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