Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

WP Featured News – Custom Posts Listing Elements

Name: WP Featured News – Custom Posts Listing Elements
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Author: Fluent-Themes

Sourceswordpress.org listing support forum author’s site donate

Active installs10+ rounded

Current authorFluent-Themes

Owner changesNone while we have been watching

Last release10 months ago 02 Nov 2025

Support— no recent threads

Releases on record1

Rating5.0 /5 · 5

Added to directory08 Sep 2019

Requires WP5.9

Requires PHP7.4

Version lag0.3 behind

Tested up toWP 6.8.8 WordPress is now on 7.1

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Ownership

Held by Fluent-Themes 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, falling 50% 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

5.0

out of 5
5 ratings

5★5

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	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	—	11	0	0	0	0	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	11

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (5) · active installs (10+) · version (2.0.0) · 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 directory6.5 years ago 08 Sep 2019

Requires WP5.9

Requires PHP7.4

Version lag0.3 behind

Is anyone still maintaining this?

Last released 02 Nov 2025, 301 days ago.
Declares compatibility only up to WordPress 6.8.8, while 7.1 is current. The author has not confirmed it runs on the last 3 releases.
The same account maintains 1 other plugin; the most recent update to any of them was 02 Nov 2025.

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.
02 Nov 202510 months ago
Version 2.0.0 released
08 Sep 20196.5 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 Fluent-Themes for all 29 days we have observed it.
It was last released 10 months ago (02 Nov 2025).
Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 6.8.8; WordPress is now on 7.1.
WordPress.org reports 10+ active installs.
It carries 5 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.

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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