WP Featured News – Custom Posts Listing Elements
by Fluent-Themes · Admin & Utilities
Also makes 1 other plugin · 70+ installs across the portfolio →
WP Featured News plugin allows you to display your posts anywhere of your web-pages with 10 powerful and creatively designed post blocks.
74 health vs 54 average across 3,793 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.
Well optimized
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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
56
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
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.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2021-09-03 · 1,383 observations
Estimated value
What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.
Est. annual revenue
Est. acquisition value
No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.
Details
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.3
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-01-23 20+ → 10+ down after 346 days in tier
- 2023-02-11 30+ → 20+ down after 36 days in tier
- 2023-01-06 20+ → 30+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2022-12-28 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2022-12-24 20+ → 30+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2022-12-23 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2022-12-21 20+ → 30+ 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).
- F Featured Posts Widget 30+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags D
- C CCR Featured Posts 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 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
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