Mark Posts

75 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

With only 1,000 active installs, Mark Posts has a niche audience that has not grown aggressively, though it modestly outperforms its 30-point baseline for its size.

Update Freshness

25/25

The plugin was updated on February 12, 2025, and tests clean against WordPress 6.7.5, but it requires PHP 7.0 which is well below current supported versions, dragging the score down.

User Rating

14/15

A 96 out of 100 from 10 ratings is excellent, suggesting the users who have tried it are highly satisfied with how it solves their workflow problem.

Support Health

8/15

There are zero support threads, which means either nobody has needed help or nobody has bothered to ask, making support responsiveness impossible to verify.

WP Compatibility

15/15

The plugin supports WordPress back to 4.1 and PHP 7.0, giving wide compatibility, but the lower PHP ceiling and lack of evidence around modern WP feature support leaves the score middling.

Scores higher than 41% of indexed plugins

About

Mark and highlight posts, pages and posts of custom post types within the posts overview.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★½ 4.8/5

Last Updated 2026-08-31 11:24am GMT

Requires WordPress 4.1+

Tested Up To 7.1

Requires PHP 7.0+

Security History

2 known vulnerabilities, all patched

2 Medium

Most recent: January 16, 2025

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What It Does

Mark Posts adds colour-coded visual labels to entries in the WordPress admin posts list, letting editors flag or categorize posts, pages, and custom post types at a glance. Think of it as a sticky-note system built right into the dashboard: you tag a post as 'urgent,' 'draft for review,' or 'featured,' and the colour shows up in every admin list view. It does not affect the front-end appearance of your site at all, only the backend workflow.

Who It's For

This plugin is well suited for editorial teams, newsrooms, and content-heavy sites that need to triage and prioritize large volumes of posts quickly from the admin dashboard. If you manage dozens of posts per week and find yourself scanning long lists to figure out which ones are ready, in progress, or flagged, the colour-coding will save real time. Solo bloggers with a handful of posts will get much less value out of it.

Who Should Skip It

If you only publish a few posts a month or already use WordPress custom statuses, taxonomies, or editorial workflow plugins, you do not need this. Sites with simple editorial processes will find it redundant.

The Bottom Line

Mark Posts delivers exactly what it promises and its small user base gives it a near-perfect rating, so the product itself is solid. The catch is real support infrastructure: zero threads, low install count, and an outdated PHP requirement suggest a solo developer project. If your editorial workflow genuinely needs coloured flags in the posts list, install it and it will work, but do not expect a bustling community behind it.

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