WP-xPerts Popular Posts
by sajid hussain · Admin & Utilities
Display Most popular posts or most viewed posts on your blog using widget in sidebar, it also supports custom post types
45 health vs 54 average across 2,509 Admin & Utilities plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.33, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3420 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 · 1,382 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
49
now · peak 140
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.
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-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
No band crossings observed yet.
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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WebberZone Top 10 — Popular Posts 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A -
WP Most Popular 2K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags D -
Popular Posts by Webline 1K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags C -
Toplytics 80+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Simple Post View Counter – Clean and Fast Post View Analytics 30+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C - E Easy Popular Posts Widget 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D
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