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Advanced Custom Fields: NextGEN Gallery Field add-on

by Aleš Loziak · Media

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Adds a NextGEN Gallery Field to Advanced Custom Fields. Select one or more NextGEN Galleries and assign them to the post.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
38 Health · F
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 56/100
Support 70/100

38 health vs 59 average across 2,206 Media plugins

400+

Active installs

≈470 estimated

43.6K

Total downloads

since 2012

3.25★

Rating (adjusted)

2.1★ raw · 7 reviews

-8%

327

Downloads · 30d

category median +18%

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.0, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4255 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-8% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

327

now · peak 449

33130d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Advanced Custom Fiel · #9594 you Advanced Custom Fiel · #5718 Advanced Custom Fiel · #20844 ACF: Google Map Exte · #7699

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2.1Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

828per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

11.7y ago

latest release · v2.1

9

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

2.1 · 11.7y ago2.0 · 12.9y ago1.2 · 12.9y ago1.1.1 · 14.1y ago1.1.2 · 14.1y ago1.1 · 14.1y ago1.0.2 · 14.2y ago1.0.1 · 14.2y ago1.0 · 14.2y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 90% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v2.1 90%
v2.0 5.6%
v1.2 4.1%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “400+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
400–500 ≈470

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-21 · 1,425 observations

400Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 7 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
5

Details

Version
2.1
Last updated
11.7y ago
Added
2012-06-09 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.1.0
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ 1
    10.4y ago

    I don’t get it, why so many people around gave one star to this plugin? I downloaded it, made custom NextGen Gallery, create custom field in ACF, made proper type of this field, create personal “single-” template for my custom post type, put a proper PHP in it and everything works fine! No problem at all! I am absolutely noob and don’t know what templates & PHP are and how they works, but I spend two hours to learn a little and now everything works as I want. If you are not patient or don’t want to keep studying or spend a little free time to understand how WordPress is working – stay away from this plugin and don’t waste your onestars. In my case everything works. Thank you, developers! ^^

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  2. ★★★★★ Cyrus Besabella
    11.2y ago

    Not working on the latest WP and ACF . Please fix and thank you for your wonderful plugin, 🙂 God bless!

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  3. ★★★★★ Anonymous
    11.4y ago

    I removed my old review. The plugin work

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  4. ★★★★★ zactoff
    13.0y ago

    Using this with latest version of WP & ACF, it doesn’t work. Shame as this would be a very useful plugin if it was kept up to date.

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  5. ★★★★★ robbiegod
    13.0y ago

    It doesn’t seem to work with the new version of ACF. It would be great if you guys would update the plugin. If not then maybe post the source on Github and let someone take over the project.

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  6. ★★★★★ ch4sethe5un
    13.1y ago

    Very buggy with the newest ACF v4

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  7. ★★★★★ lava-team
    13.2y ago

    This is good one. but it doesn’t work with the newest version. Sad..

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Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-05-16 500+ → 400+ down after 328 days in tier
  2. 2025-06-22 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-06-21 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-06-20 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-06-19 500+ → 600+ up after 4 days in tier
  6. 2025-06-15 600+ → 500+ down after 266 days in tier
  7. 2024-09-22 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-09-21 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier

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