Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Recent Posts Shortcode & Widget

Name: Recent Posts Shortcode & Widget
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Author: rajros

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site donate

Active installs300+ rounded

Current authorrajros

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release8 years ago 14 Mar 2018

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record1

Rating5.0 /5 · 6

Added to directory09 Mar 2017

Requires WP3.3

Requires PHPfalse

Version lag2.2 behind

Tested up toWP 4.9.31 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by rajros 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.

Small but established: 300+ active installs. Enough sites to show it works in the wild, too few for adoption to say much on its own.

5 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 12/day28 Aug 2026

5.0

out of 5
6 ratings

5★6

4★0

3★0

2★0

1★0

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	15 Aug	16 Aug	17 Aug	18 Aug	19 Aug	20 Aug	21 Aug	22 Aug	23 Aug	24 Aug	25 Aug	26 Aug	27 Aug	28 Aug
Downloads that day	—	0	0	11	0	12	0	0	11	0	11	0	11	0

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (6) · active installs (300+) · version (1.8) · support threads (0) · threads resolved (0)

27 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 directory9.5 years ago 09 Mar 2017

Requires WP3.3

Requires PHPfalse

Version lag2.2 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

No release in 3,089 days (8.5 years). The last was 14 Mar 2018.
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.
rajros publishes no other plugin in the directory, so there is no wider activity to compare against.

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 202626 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.
05 Sep 20196.5 years ago
Dormancy threshold crossed540 days since the last release (2018-03-14). Dormancy is a maintenance observation, not a judgement about the owner.
14 Mar 20188 years ago
Version 1.8 released
09 Mar 20179.5 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 rajros for all 27 days we have observed it.
It was last released 8 years ago (14 Mar 2018).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 4.9.31; WordPress is now on 7.1.
WordPress.org reports 300+ active installs.
It carries 6 ratings, averaging 5.0 out of 5.

What we don’t know yet

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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