Visual Recipe Index

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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.

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20 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 10 listed. 10 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).

Directory rank

Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 59% 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 20 months ago; the previous band took 16 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ anonilla

   8.7y ago

   Looks absolutely stunning. Much better than what I was using before! http://therawbuzz.com/rawveganrecipes/

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2. ★★★★★ Kikalicious

   11.0y ago

   Hello everyone! I need help on how to customize the index. Any idea on how to do it? I would really appreciate some help. Thanks in advance. Francisca

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3. ★★★★★ Willow

   11.3y ago

   This plugin is easy to install. It does exactly what it says it does. I love that it is automated. I do wish it had an automated list feature though. I also wish that I could split each category into pages. Right now I am only using this plugin to showcase my recipes in a view all page. I had to create a different way to showcase my recipes on individual pages so that there can be more than one page. I personally hate scrolling down a long list. At least with my view all page I can add more pages, but I am not sure how that will look with only a few categories on one page, and more on another. Another plus of this plugin is it loads quickly! Before I had thumbnails that took awhile to load, or loaded in the wrong size unless you refreshed the page. If anyone is curious (I usually am)about what my individual category pages look like they’re at: http://createmindfully.com/recipes/main-dishes-and-small-dishes/

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4. ★★★★★ labnoon

   11.5y ago

   Unless many promotions on different blogs and great seo work on introducing this plugin I had to deactivate it merely because of poor presentation and aligning and no help with some CSS to remove the border and round corners. Not all of us are css experts and I even noticed some people were simply answered by “that ‘feature’ is not available on the free version”! I think with a bit of more support it would become a great plugin.

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5. ★★★★★ shaunascheets

   11.7y ago

   This does exactly what it says – creates a visual index page based on your posts as they are in their categories. It was very easy to use and install and is nice and clean in regards to visual appeal. You can view what I did with it at: http://lostlorebooks.com/apothecs/index

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6. ★★★★★ Chelsey

   12.0y ago

   It took me forever to find a plugin that would index my recipes. Honestly, this was the only one I found and I was skeptical. But it did JUST what I wanted it to do. I had to edit the plugin’s style-sheet a bit to make it look the way I wanted (may do a bit more tweaking, but I’m fairly happy). Other than that, easy to install, easy to use! Thanks!

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7. ★★★★★ Debsterism

   12.2y ago

   Need option to remove the shadow boxes period for a clean look. Need option to list recipes in list form with click-through to imaged archives. Once site has 100s of recipes it will be ridiculously cumbersome to scroll through a longggggggggggggggggggggg page the way it is set up now. So this is a great start. Consult with some people who cook and run recipe blogs, and you’ll get a much more useful plug-in.

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8. ★★★★★ Deborah

   12.2y ago

   I didn’t like the default design BUT, it is so easy to edit the css to make it exactly how I want it. My favorite part is the built-in Tom Thumb image sizing. It took me a while to decide what size I wanted the photos to be and this allowed me to play around with it without blurry images. Thank you!!!

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-03-02 400+ → 300+ down after 474 days in tier
2. 2023-11-14 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in tier
3. 2023-11-11 400+ → 500+ up after 4 days in tier
4. 2023-11-07 500+ → 400+ down after 360 days in tier
5. 2022-11-12 600+ → 500+ down after 290 days in tier
6. 2022-01-26 700+ → 600+ down after 282 days in tier
7. 2021-04-19 800+ → 700+ down after 246 days in tier
8. 2020-08-16 1K+ → 800+ down

Competes with

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Visual Recipe Index: 300+ active installs, 4.4★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/visual-recipe-index