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

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.

WC Disable Zoom / Lightbox features

by theorcawp

Health C63

Ultimate Product Gallery for WooCommerce

by barfaraz

Health D45

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

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

Release activity

WC Disable Zoom / Lightbox featuresUltimate Product Gallery for WooCommerce

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.