Visualmodo Related Posts

by Visualmodo · Uncategorized

Also makes 2 other plugins · 5.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

Visualmodo Related Posts for WordPress will help increase your visitors’ time on website and decrease your bounce rate.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 45/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

+116%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “easy related posts”, “related content” and “related posts” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

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How scoring works →

45 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 76/100

Support 70/100

45 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins

100+

Active installs

≈150 estimated

Total downloads

since 2019 · 1.1% still active

4.1/5

Rating

5.0 on wp.org · 2 reviews

+116%

Downloads · 30d

category median +8%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.1%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 9K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,764 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24.

Ratings · 2 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0.3
Last updated: 6.0y ago
Added: 2019-09-18 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP: 5.3
Tested up to: 5.5.24
Requires PHP: 7.0

Changelog ↗Support forum ↗Reviews ↗Advanced stats ↗

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.

40 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 2/100

Updated 2178 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 22/100

Tested up to WordPress 5.5.24; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 52/100

5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 2178 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Search visibility

How it's tracked →

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.

Keyword	wp.org	On merit	wp.org move, 90 days
easy related posts your tag	Not in the top 24
related content your tag	Not in the top 24
related posts your tag	Not in the top 24
related posts for wordpress your tag	Not in the top 24

0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

What to do about it

“easy related posts”, “related content” and “related posts” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+116% vs prior 30d

030 Oct 2026

1260

030 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 98 · peaks are release surges

9731 Oct 2026

100500

9731 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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.

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.

97031 Oct 2026

1K5000

97031 Oct 2026

Release cadence

No release in a year

from wp.org release tags

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

releases in the last 12 months

6.0y ago

latest release · v1.0.3 · 13 Nov 2020

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.3 · 13 Nov 20201.0.2 · 13 Nov 20201.0.1 · 22 Sep 20191.0.0 · 18 Sep 2019

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate

100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 22 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 11 Jan 2020

10031 Oct 2026

3001500

10031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗

★★★★★ Shaibu Ibrahim
5.8y ago

This is the best I’ve used so far, but it doesn’t randomize the posts. It just takes the latest posts from the category of the post being viewed. I hope the next update will have a random option. This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by Shaibu Ibrahim.
Read on wp.org ↗
★★★★★ Neide Nunes
7.1y ago

It’s really good and simple to use, with a nice settings panel page and good customization options to edit the related posts section in the blog posts page. Good work
Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.6

✓ 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 34 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Russian 78%

French (France) 75%

Japanese 56%

Spanish (Spain) 55%

Polish 48%

Chinese (China) 38%

Italian 38%

Portuguese (Brazil) 37%

Turkish 37%

Dutch 35%

German 35%

Romanian 35%

Arabic 34%

Czech 34%

Norwegian (Bokmål) 34%

Greek 33%

Persian 32%

Swedish 31%

Hebrew 28%

Indonesian 28%

Croatian 26%

Nepali 26%

Portuguese (Portugal) 25%

Bulgarian 23%

Plus 10 more locales with partial translations.

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

2 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

✓ Says what it does "Visualmodo Related Posts for WordPress will help increase your visitors’ time on website and decrease your..."
! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
! Enough to quote 273 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "easy related posts", "related content" do not.

Growth timeline

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

2025-01-14 200+ → 100+ down after 12 days in tier
2025-01-02 100+ → 200+ up after 4 days in tier
2024-12-29 200+ → 100+ down after 643 days in tier
2023-03-27 300+ → 200+ down after 174 days in tier
2022-10-04 100+ → 300+ up

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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Visualmodo Related Posts: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/visualmodo-related-posts

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