Ultimate Product Gallery for WooCommerce vs WC Disable Zoom / Lightbox features

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

WC Disable Zoom / Lightbox features is the safest pick: health C · 63 against 45 for Ultimate Product Gallery for WooCommerce, led by lower removal risk.

Ultimate Product Gallery for WooCommerce

by barfaraz

Health D45

WC Disable Zoom / Lightbox features

by theorcawp

Health C63

Active-install trajectory

WC Disable Zoom / Lightbox features moved down one install band, 800+ to 700+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Ultimate Product Gallery for WooCommerce	WC Disable Zoom / Lightbox features
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	700–800 ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-13%
Overall health	D · 45	C · 63 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	56/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	76/100 ✓	65/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★ ✓	3.6★
Reviews	2	9 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	37/100	74/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	7.5y ago	1.1y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	36	222 ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	-37%	+13%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.4%	4.9% ✓
Category	Media	eCommerce

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

Release activity

Ultimate Product Gallery for WooCommerceWC Disable Zoom / Lightbox features

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.