WP Featured News – Custom Posts Listing Elements
by Fluent-Themes · Admin & Utilities
WP Featured News plugin allows you to display your posts anywhere of your web-pages with 10 powerful and creatively designed post blocks.
77 health vs 54 average across 2,564 Admin & Utilities plugins
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Biggest win: Rating quality
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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
58
now · peak 141
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-01-23 20+ → 10+ down after 346 days in band
- 2023-02-11 30+ → 20+ down after 36 days in band
- 2023-01-06 20+ → 30+ up after 9 days in band
- 2022-12-28 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in band
- 2022-12-24 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in band
- 2022-12-23 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in band
- 2022-12-21 20+ → 30+ up
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- F Featured Posts Widget 30+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D
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Launchpad Popular Posts 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D -
Custom Post Type UI 1M+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Meta Box 500K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A - S Sydney Toolbox 50K+ installs · 3.0★ · 1 shared tag D
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