Twitter Embed
by Konstantin Kovshenin · Social
Easily embed tweets in your posts and pages by posting the tweet URL on a line by itself or by using a shortcode provided by the Twitter interface.
43 health vs 58 average across 537 Social plugins
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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4947 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
37
now · peak 137
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-10-06 300+ → 200+ down after 584 days in band
- 2024-03-01 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-02-29 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-02-28 400+ → 300+ down after 354 days in band
- 2023-03-11 500+ → 400+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Embed PDF Viewer 20K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Easy Twitter Feed Widget Plugin 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D -
Disable Embeds 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags C -
Autopost for X (formerly Autoshare for Twitter) 5K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
oEmbed Plus 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D -
Embedly 2K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
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