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Tumblr Widget

by gabrielroth · Admin & Utilities

Allows you to import a Tumblr into any widgetized area of a WordPress blog.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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44 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 73/100
Support 70/100

44 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, 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.

31 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4148 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 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+35% vs prior 30d
5Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

131

now · peak 197

13130d 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

Tumblr Widget · #9892 you Widgets for Google R · #68 Blocksy Companion · #165 Black Studio TinyMCE · #234

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4Stars · Aug 26

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.

328per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 91% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.1 91%
v1.4 6.3%
v2.0 2.6%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈460

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

Install history · since 2015-04-22 · 1,423 observations

400Installs · 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.

Details

Version
2.1
Last updated
11.4y ago
Added
2009-07-13 · 17 yrs old
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
4.2.39
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. jdavidingram
    1.1y ago

    Awesome plugin… until it wasn’t. Latest version of PHP (8.3) seems to have irreparably broken the plugin and results in a critical site error if it is active – breaks WordPress, not able to access Dashboard, website no longer displays. Seemed OK up to PHP 7.3. Looking at the lack of recent activity in the support forums, and with the last update to the plugin being 10 years ago (?) I think that this one has sadly finally met the end of its usefulness. Great while it lasted.

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  2. Zain Neil B Ul Abadin
    10.3y ago

    You save my day!

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  3. daviding
    10.7y ago

    A long time ago, I installed this plug-in to show photo posts to Tumblr from Flickr. In November 2015, the way that Flickr interacts with Tumblr has changed. (Both Flickr and Tumblr are owned by Yahoo, and have been concerned about reuse of images). Photos from Tumblr now show up a “video”. See https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157660534398877/ . On my WordPress blog, I just noticed that the photos weren’t updating from the Tumblr RSS feed. That RSS feed looks ago, so I looked into the plugin settings. Checking the “video” button and setting a width (of 150px) has restored the function. Thanks for this plugin. Its resilience to code changes at Tumblr (and Flickr) reflects good design.

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  4. pixelrage
    10.8y ago

    This does a very basic job of showing Tumblr posts (for all post types). What it doesn’t do is let you fine tune how the results look: forced custom width (it only allows you to use pre-determined widths), borders, etc. It does let you filter which kinds of Tumblr posts you want to show, though. Images simply butt up against each other in one big vertical line and it looks ugly. It is also forcing an indentation and showing a bullet to the left of every RSS image, not sure why. Would love to see an update to this widget!

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  5. husk3r
    11.4y ago

    this is just the best plugin to widgetize your tumblr posts,grat work!!

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  6. X-Raym
    11.7y ago

    I was looking for a widget for displaying link to articles I saw during the day. This doesn’t deserve custom post types or anything like that, it has to be quicker. This is the perfect tool for doing this ! Thanks !

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  7. zkg03mjmk
    12.4y ago

    Very good plugin. One minor complain, the photo width choices are limited, and there is a large gap between 250px and 400px.

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  8. megasonic
    13.0y ago

    This widget is so useful! Love it. Much better than all the other methods of displaying Tumblr content in WordPress.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

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. 2026-01-21 500+ → 400+ down after 206 days in tier
  2. 2025-06-29 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-06-28 500+ → 600+ up after 4 days in tier
  4. 2025-06-24 600+ → 500+ down after 2 days in tier
  5. 2025-06-22 500+ → 600+ up after 3 days in tier
  6. 2025-06-19 600+ → 500+ down after 235 days in tier
  7. 2024-10-27 700+ → 600+ down after 148 days in tier
  8. 2024-06-01 800+ → 700+ down after 142 days in tier

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