Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block vs Firelight Lightbox

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

Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block

by Johannes Kinast

Health A91

Firelight Lightbox

by Firelight

Health A91

Active-install trajectory

Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block 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	Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block	Firelight Lightbox
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20K–30K	200K–300K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	A · 91	A · 91
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	97/100 ✓	95/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.86★ ✓	4.77★
Reviews	88	355 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	99/100	99/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	3mo ago	1mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	2.3K	27.7K ✓
Category	Blocks	Media

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

Release activity

Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block 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.