WP Reading List
by Mike Stumpf · Uncategorized
WP Reading List is a plugin designed to help organize and display books, magazines, articles, and anything else that you have read lately.
43 health vs 56 average across 12,063 Uncategorized plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.10.
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.
Room to improve
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 1358 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
27
now · peak 76
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-07-17 40+ → 30+ down after 20 days in tier
- 2026-06-27 50+ → 40+ down after 247 days in tier
- 2025-10-23 60+ → 50+ down after 49 days in tier
- 2025-09-04 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-09-03 60+ → 50+ down after 91 days in tier
- 2025-06-04 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-06-03 60+ → 50+ down after 181 days in tier
- 2024-12-04 70+ → 60+ down after 38 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/wp-reading-list" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="WP Reading List — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> WP Reading List: 30+ active installs, 3.0★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-reading-list