Twitter feeds, widgets and social displays
Feed and widget names cover a range of display-related options at different adoption levels.
- Custom Twitter Feeds: 100,000 active installs.
- Social Media Widget: 30,000 active installs.
- Easy Twitter Feed Widget Plugin: 10,000 active installs.
- WP Review Slider: 6,000 active installs.
- Customize Feeds for Twitter: 4,000 active installs.
Login, sharing and automated posting
Other prominent names point to social login, sharing buttons and automated posting rather than feed display.
- Nextend Social Login and Register: 200,000 active installs, the highest count among the listed plugins.
- Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Relat: 10,000 active installs.
- Autopost for X (formerly Autoshare for Twitter): 5,000 active installs.
- Custom Share Buttons with Floating Sidebar: 4,000 active installs.
How Twitter plugins overlap with broader social tags
The category overlaps with wider social-media and widget groupings, not just Twitter-specific tags.
Facebook is the most common related tag, appearing on 154 plugins in both categories. The social tag overlaps on 78, while tweet appears on 65 and widget on 64.
Further overlap includes tweets on 44 plugins, social-media on 42, share on 34 and LinkedIn on 30. Together, these counts show how the category extends across social and display-related groupings.
A fragmented category with limited recent maintenance
Install counts are concentrated among a few plugins, while recent updates are uncommon across the category.
There are 457 plugins, but only 2 have at least 100,000 active installs and 5 have at least 10,000. Just 9% were updated in the last year. Some prominent entries were updated recently: Custom Twitter Feeds and WP Review Slider this month, Autopost for X 2 months ago, and Nextend Social Login and Register 3 months ago.
Other listed entries have older update dates, including Social Media Widget at 29 months and Easy Twitter Feed Widget Plugin at 107 months. Review signals also differ: for example, listed ratings range from poor with few reviews to excellent with a moderate number. Comparing adoption, review signals and update recency together gives a fuller basis for assessing options.