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WP Query Creator

by Patel · Uncategorized

Also makes 1 other plugin · 270+ installs across the portfolio →

WP Query Creator provides an interface for creating WP queries as shortcodes.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Few reviews⚠ Open vulnerability

Health

C 57/100

Stale · Few reviews · Open vulnerability

Active installs

70+

≈79 estimated

Momentum

+57%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “loop”, “post query” and “query” 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.

How scoring works →
57 Health · C
Maintenance 35/100
Rating quality 70/100
Support 70/100
Security 65/100

57 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.8%

of downloads still active

At least 70 of 3.8K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,766 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.

Details

Version
1.0
Last updated
1.7y ago
Added
2017-08-29 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
5.0
Tested up to
6.5.14
Requires PHP
7.1

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.

66 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 44/100

Updated 609 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 77/100

Tested up to WordPress 6.5.14; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 50/100

3.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.08★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 609 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

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

+57% vs prior 30d
230 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 104 · peaks are release surges

7931 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #18,200 to #19,000, alongside the other plugins at 70+ 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.

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

5731 Oct 2026

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

1.7y ago

latest release · v1.0 · 1 Mar 2025

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0 · 1 Mar 2025

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 “70+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
70–80 ≈79

Crossed into this band 45 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 80.

Install history since 4 Oct 2022

7031 Oct 2026

Security history

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 open vulnerability affects the current version (1.0). 0 of 1 disclosed are patched.

  1. 2025-01-18 CVE-2025-22264 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.0 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

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

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 26 Oct 2026

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

  • ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
  • ! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
  • ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("use this", "if you have").
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 940 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "post query" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-09-16 80+ → 70+ down after 181 days in tier
  2. 2026-03-19 90+ → 80+ down after 3 days in tier
  3. 2026-03-16 80+ → 90+ up after 4 days in tier
  4. 2026-03-12 90+ → 80+ down after 91 days in tier
  5. 2025-12-11 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in tier
  6. 2025-12-09 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2025-12-07 100+ → 90+ down after 648 days in tier
  8. 2024-02-28 90+ → 100+ up after 3 days in tier

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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