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Widget Responsive for Youtube

by stefanoai · Admin & Utilities

Also makes 1 other plugin · 7K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Widgets + ShortCode responsive to embed youtube in your sidebar or in your content [youtube video=...] or in WPBakery Page Builder, with SEO http://sc …

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned

Health

C 63/100

Stale · Likely abandoned

Active installs

7K+

≈7.5K estimated

Momentum

+36%

downloads vs prior 30d

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63 Health · C
Maintenance 19/100
Rating quality 89/100
Support 70/100
Security 98/100

63 health vs 56 average across 5,897 Admin & Utilities plugins

7K+

Active installs

≈7.5K estimated

332.8K

Total downloads

since 2013 · 2.1% still active

4.5/5

Rating

4.9 on wp.org · 17 reviews

+36%

539

Downloads · 30d

category median +6%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

2.1%

of downloads still active

At least 7K of 332.8K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Admin & Utilities plugin keeps 0.6%, across 4,189 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Admin & Utilities plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

Ratings · 17 reviews

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5★
16 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.6.2
Last updated
2.3y ago
Added
2013-12-08 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
6.5.14
Requires PHP
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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.

67 / 100

Room to improve

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 27/100

Updated 852 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 75/100

4.9★ over 17 reviews, smoothed to 4.30★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 852 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 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+36% vs prior 30d
231 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 5.6K · peaks are release surges

5391 Nov 2026

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

Widget Responsive fo · #2634youUltimate Addons for · #2666My YouTube Channel · #3221Simple YouTube Embed · #3246

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.91 Nov 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

631 Nov 2026

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.

771 Nov 2026

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 83% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.6 83%
v1.4 12%
Older / other versions 4.8%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “7K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
7K–8K ≈7.5K

Crossed into this band 7 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 3 Jun 2015

7K1 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ mickdom
    6.8y ago

    Hi, your plugin crashes with another installed plugin “WPFront User Role Editor”. The whole widget area stops working as soon as I want to save your widget. Can you fix that? Thanks in advance! This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by mickdom.

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  2. ★★★★★ pighead
    8.2y ago

    Wanted to add a video to the sidebar, but the wordpress video widget is simply not customizable and the video i added would go out of frame. With this widget the youtube video i added fittet itself perfectly, no edit/customization needed. Just what i needed!

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  3. ★★★★★ Vito LENTINI
    9.6y ago

    Bonjour, Ce plugin est vraiment super. Facile à configurer et il a de nombreuses fonctions facilement paramétrable. Merci au concepteur du plugin.

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  4. ★★★★★ ikester7579
    9.8y ago

    I liked the way it was setup. But it crashed all my other widgets. And to fix I had to restore the site. Deleting it did not fix what happened. But if you guys can get it to work on your sites, it’s the bomb of youtube widgets.

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  5. ★★★★★ pmccracken
    10.1y ago

    This plugin has saved me a lot of time and headaches trying to make the videos on my website responsive. It was so easy to use and works seamlessly. Thank you!

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  6. ★★★★★ Adam Pery
    10.4y ago

    Thanks a lot!!

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  7. ★★★★★ Trumani
    10.9y ago

    This plugin was a quick and easy to use, and the end result is exactly what I needed.

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  8. ★★★★★ sciencedada
    11.0y ago

    Haven’t tested all the extended attributes, but I am very pleased with the basic functionality!

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 1.6.2 fixed vulnerability Vulnerability Title: Widget Responsive for Youtube CVSS Severity Score: 6.4 (Medium) CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Organization: Wordfence Vulnerability Researcher: Lana Co 1.6.2
  2. — Version 1.4.5 Change display name for trademark 1.4.5
  3. — Version 1.4.4 fix compatibility with WPFront User Role Editor 1.4.4
  4. — Version 1.4.3 fix loading on WPBakery Page Builder 1.4.3
  5. — Version 1.4.2 fix possibility to save widget if change only image preview 1.4.2
  6. — Version 1.4.1 fix channel ID for button subscribe 1.4.1

Security history

via Wordfence Intelligence

The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (1.6.2). Sites still on an older version should update.

  1. Patched Medium · 6.4 Widget Responsive for Youtube <= 1.6.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode ↗
    2023-09-19 CVE-2023-5063 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.6.1 Patched in 1.6.2

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 8.1.12 · WP 6.3.1

✓ 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

Languages

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Translated into 82 languages, 2 at 90% or more · development strings

German 100%
Russian 100%
Italian 67%
Swedish 61%
Japanese 47%
Romanian 20%
French (France) 17%
Finnish 15%
Cebuano 14%
Dutch (Formal) 14%
English (South Africa) 14%
English (UK) 14%
Hebrew 14%
Polish 14%
Punjabi 14%
Azerbaijani 12%
English (Canada) 12%
French (Canada) 12%
Dutch 11%
English (Australia) 11%
English (New Zealand) 11%
Esperanto 11%
Portuguese (Portugal) 11%
Spanish (Spain) 11%

Plus 58 more locales with partial translations.

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

7 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026

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

  • ✓ Says what it does "Widgets + ShortCode responsive to embed youtube in your sidebar or in your content [youtube video=...] or i..."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 3 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 2 of 3 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use this"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Google Analytics, YouTube.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 42 lists.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 8,021 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "YouTube embed" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-14 8K+ → 7K+ down after 238 days in tier
  2. 2025-08-19 9K+ → 8K+ down after 5 days in tier
  3. 2025-08-14 8K+ → 9K+ up after 10 days in tier
  4. 2025-08-04 9K+ → 8K+ down after 177 days in tier
  5. 2025-02-08 10K+ → 9K+ down after 1271 days in tier
  6. 2021-08-17 20K+ → 10K+ down after 871 days in tier
  7. 2019-03-30 30K+ → 20K+ down after 637 days in tier
  8. 2017-07-01 20K+ → 30K+ up after 289 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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Widget Responsive for Youtube: 7K+ active installs, 4.9★ (17 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/youtube-widget-responsive

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