Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Vid vs Slick Slider

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

Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Vid

by ShapedPlugin LLC

Health A90

Slick Slider

by Philipp Bammes

Health B84

Active-install trajectory

Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Vid Slick Slider

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	Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Vid	Slick Slider
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	70K–80K ✓	2K–3K
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	A · 90 ✓	B · 84
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	93/100 ✓	77/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.69★ ✓	4.07★
Reviews	432 ✓	15
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	99/100 ✓	71/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	7d ago ✓	1mo ago
Downloads · 30d	35.8K ✓	1.3K
Category	Media	Media

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

Release activity

Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Vid Slick Slider

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.