Frndzk Photo Lightbox Gallery vs Firelight Lightbox

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Frndzk Photo Lightbox Gallery

by bitto.kazi

Health D44

Firelight Lightbox

by Firelight

Health A91

Active-install trajectory

Frndzk Photo Lightbox Gallery Firelight Lightbox

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	Frndzk Photo Lightbox Gallery	Firelight Lightbox
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	30–40	200K–300K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 44	A · 91 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	73/100	95/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.92★	4.77★ ✓
Reviews	4	355 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	37/100	99/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	11.3y ago	2mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	47	21.9K ✓
Category	Media	Media

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

Frndzk Photo Lightbox Gallery Firelight Lightbox

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.