WP Autoset Featured Image Plus

Check for an image inside text editor or use external images from anywhere as the featured image of your pages and posts.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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43 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 70/100

Support 70/100

43 health vs 57 average across 8,712 Uncategorized plugins

100+

Active installs

≈140 estimated

17.9K

Total downloads

since 2015

3.82★

Rating (adjusted)

3.7★ raw · 6 reviews

-32%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 4/100

Rating quality 56/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3971 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-32% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 83

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

WP Autoset Featured · #13480 External URL Feature · #10090 Easy Featured Images · #13593 Featured Image from · #607

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.

tracked estimate

100–200 ≈140

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,376 observations

Ratings · 6 reviews

Details

Version: 3.0
Last updated: 10.9y ago
Added: 2015-04-16 · 11 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.1
Tested up to: 4.2.39
Requires PHP: —

Changelog ↗Support forum ↗Reviews ↗Advanced stats ↗

Growth timeline

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

2026-05-19 200+ → 100+ down after 42 days in band
2026-04-07 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
2026-04-06 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
2026-04-05 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in band
2026-04-03 200+ → 100+ down after 13 days in band
2026-03-21 100+ → 200+ up after 15 days in band
2026-03-06 200+ → 100+ down after 474 days in band
2024-11-17 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band

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WP Autoset Featured Image Plus: 100+ active installs, 3.7★ (6 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-autoset-featured-image-plus