YouTube Background Slider vs Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider

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

YouTube Background Slider

by WPTreasure

Health D43

Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider

by MetaSlider

Health A94

Active-install trajectory

YouTube Background Slider Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider

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	YouTube Background Slider	Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	500K–600K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 43	A · 94 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	69/100	91/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	89/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	3.77★	4.62★ ✓
Reviews	2	738 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	36/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	12.3y ago	today ✓
Downloads · 30d	50	452.4K ✓
Category	Media	Media

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

Release activity

YouTube Background Slider Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider

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.