Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Featured Posts Widget

Name: Featured Posts Widget
Author: DannyCooper

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site

Active installs10+ rounded

Current authorDannyCooper

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release8.5 years ago 28 Nov 2017

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record1

Rating— no ratings yet

Added to directory28 Nov 2017

Requires WP4.0

Requires PHP5.2.4

Version lag2.2 behind

Tested up toWP 4.9.31 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by DannyCooper throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.

Full observed history, including every field transition

Adoption

How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.

Very early-stage: 10+ active installs. Too few installs to read anything into adoption. That is a gap in the evidence, not a mark against the plugin.

2 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.

08 Aug 2026peak 11/day30 Aug 2026

No ratings on record, so there is no sentiment to report.

Daily record

Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.

Field	17 Aug	18 Aug	19 Aug	20 Aug	21 Aug	22 Aug	23 Aug	24 Aug	25 Aug	26 Aug	27 Aug	28 Aug	29 Aug	30 Aug
Downloads that day	—	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	11	0	0

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (0) · active installs (10+) · version (1.0.1) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

29 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.

Maintenance

When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.

Added to directory8.5 years ago 28 Nov 2017

Requires WP4.0

Requires PHP5.2.4

Version lag2.2 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

No release in 3,197 days (8.8 years). The last was 28 Nov 2017.
Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 4.9.31, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 22 releases.
The same account maintains 7 other plugins, 1 of which was updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.

A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.

History

Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.

02 Aug 202628 days ago
First observed by PluginPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
22 May 20197 years ago
Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2017-11-28). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
28 Nov 20178.5 years ago
Version 1.0.1 released
28 Nov 20178.5 years ago
Added to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.

What we know, and what we don’t

Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.

What we know

It has been held by DannyCooper for all 29 days we have observed it.
It was last released 8.5 years ago (28 Nov 2017).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 4.9.31; WordPress is now on 7.1.
WordPress.org reports 10+ active installs.

What we don’t know yet

Nobody has rated it. The first rating that arrives shows up here.
No forum threads were open in the two months we measure, so how responsive its support is cannot be said. One new thread starts answering that.

What can’t be known

Whether the quiet is neglect or a finished plugin. That is the author’s intent, which no dataset records, and a stable plugin can need no changes for years.

Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see

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