Gallery Styles vs Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block

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

Gallery Styles

by Daniel Floeter

Health B80

Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block

by Johannes Kinast

Health A91

Active-install trajectory

Gallery Styles Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block

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	Gallery Styles	Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	500–600	20K–30K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	B · 80	A · 91 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	65/100	97/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.60★	4.86★ ✓
Reviews	0	88 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	75/100	99/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	2mo ago ✓	3mo ago
Downloads · 30d	168	2.3K ✓
Category	Blocks	Blocks

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

Release activity

Gallery Styles Lightbox for Gallery & Image Block

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.