Attachment Page Comment Control
by laceous · Media
Gives you the ability to turn comments and pings on or off for individual attachment pages within your media library.
41 health vs 59 average across 1,697 Media plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 16+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 5888 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
57
now · peak 157
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-06-17 40+ → 30+ down after 58 days in tier
- 2025-04-20 30+ → 40+ up after 97 days in tier
- 2025-01-13 40+ → 30+ down after 122 days in tier
- 2024-09-13 30+ → 40+ up after 29 days in tier
- 2024-08-15 40+ → 30+ down after 496 days in tier
- 2023-04-07 50+ → 40+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Fix Media Library 1K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags D - C Comment Image 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
- D Disable Comments on Media Attachments 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D
- V VA Removing Exif 300+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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Upgrade for Unattach and Re-attach Media Attachments 300+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D -
Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection 6M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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