Tumblr Widget

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

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.

Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.

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.

1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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

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.

Crossed into this band 10 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ jdavidingram

   1.3y 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

   10.5y ago

   You save my day!

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3. ★★★★★ daviding

   10.8y 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

   11.0y 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

   11.6y ago

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

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6. ★★★★★ X-Raym

   11.9y 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

   12.6y 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

   13.2y 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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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 245 days in tier
3. 2024-10-27 700+ → 600+ down after 148 days in tier
4. 2024-06-01 800+ → 700+ down after 142 days in tier
5. 2024-01-11 900+ → 800+ down after 134 days in tier
6. 2023-08-30 1K+ → 900+ down after 429 days in tier
7. 2022-06-27 3K+ → 1K+ down after 1188 days in tier
8. 2019-03-27 7K+ → 3K+ down after 1070 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).

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Tumblr Widget: 400+ active installs, 4.0★ (8 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-03. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/tumblr-widget-for-wordpress