Youtube Thumbnail as Featured Image
by soychuy · Content & Feeds
Use a YouTube Thumbnail as a Featured Image for a WordPress Post. You only have to set a YouTue Video URL and the plugin does the rest.
44 health vs 61 average across 449 Content & Feeds 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.21, 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 2452 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
80
now · peak 180
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-12-30 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2025-12-29 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-12-28 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-12-26 100+ → 200+ up after 3 days in band
- 2025-12-23 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2025-12-21 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2025-12-20 200+ → 100+ down after 528 days in band
- 2024-07-10 300+ → 200+ down after 414 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Quick Featured Images 50K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Post Thumbnail Extras 200+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D -
Instant Images – One-click Image Uploads from Unsplash, Openverse, Pixabay, Pexels, and Giphy 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Recent Posts Widget With Thumbnails 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Feeds for YouTube (YouTube video, channel, and gallery plugin) 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Embed Plus for YouTube Gallery, Livestream and Lazy Loading with Facades 100K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
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