Weart Category Posts Widget
by Balazs · Admin & Utilities
Weart Category Posts Widget displays the latest posts in the sidebar from a picked category with featured image.
41 health vs 53 average across 2,689 Admin & Utilities 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.25, 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 2734 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
62
now · peak 173
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-07-14 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-07-13 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-07-11 200+ → 100+ down after 17 days in band
- 2024-06-24 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-06-23 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-06-22 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in band
- 2024-06-20 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-06-19 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Category Posts Widget 40K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A -
Flexible Posts Widget 7K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags D - R Recent Posts by Category Widget 4K+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags D
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WP Popular Posts 100K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
List category posts 80K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Tag, Category, and Taxonomy Manager – Autotagger Automatically Add Terms 50K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
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