HAL

Content Management Content Feeds & Syndication

HAL is a WordPress plugin for Content Feeds & Syndication. It ranks #51 of 84 in that group by active installs and was last updated 3 months ago.

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600 Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band

3.5 Rating out of 5 From 4 ratings

31 Releases Since 17 June 2014

Aug 2026 Last release 3 months ago

Maintenance check

Is HAL still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 3 months ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.

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Standing

More installed than 82.1% of the directory

Ahead of 39,204 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

82.1% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

39,204 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

8,524 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version: 2.7.2
Requires WordPress: 5.0
Tested up to: 7.1.4
Added to the directory: 17 June 2014
Last updated: 13 August 2026
Contributors: 1
Author: Baptiste Blondelle

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