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Attachments

by Jon Christopher · Uncategorized

Also makes 7 other plugins · 108.9K+ installs across the portfolio →

Attachments allows you to simply append any number of items from your WordPress Media Library to Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types

How scoring works →
82 Health · B
Maintenance 79/100
Rating quality 93/100
Support 70/100

82 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

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.

95 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 89/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 89/100
Listing tuning 100/100
Support resolution 100/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+10% vs prior 30d
35Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

946

now · peak 3.6K

91930d 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

Attachments · #2428 you Autoremove Attachmen · #4152 Post Type Switcher · #271 Reveal IDs · #848

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · 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.

115per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
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.

2

releases in the last 12 months

8mo ago

latest release · v3.5.11

63

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.5.11 · 8mo ago3.6.10 · 8mo ago3.5.9 · 4.6y ago3.5.7 · 11.2y ago3.5.6 · 11.2y ago3.5.5 · 11.4y ago3.5.4 · 12.4y ago3.5.3 · 12.9y ago3.5.2 · 12.9y ago3.5.1.1 · 13.3y ago3.5.1 · 13.3y ago3.5 · 13.3y ago3.4.2.1 · 13.4y ago3.4.2 · 13.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.5 99%
v1.6 0.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “8K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
8K–9K ≈8.5K

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

Install history · since 2015-03-21 · 1,460 observations

8KInstalls · 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.

Details

Version
3.5.11
Last updated
8mo ago
Added
2009-11-02 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.9.7
Requires PHP

Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 3.5.11 Compatibility with WordPress 6.9 Fixes Fatal Error in some cases when deleting. Props m-hefti Fixes field value population for non-English values. Props marcochiesi Fixed bug in generated code for migration from Attachme 3.5.11
  2. Version 3.5.9 Added link to collapse Attachments to make sorting easier Fixes PHP Notice on installation Fixes illegal offset error on PHP7 Added Dutch translation 3.5.9
  3. Version 3.5.8 Fixed a potential issue when migrating from Attachments Pro 3.5.8
  4. Version 3.5.7 Fixed a regression that prevented attaching multiple files at once 3.5.7
  5. Version 3.5.6 Fixed an issue where changing an Attachment on more than one Attachment would continually update the first Attachment Media modal now includes filters (props marcochiesi) Added German translation (props bessl) Added filt 3.5.6
  6. Version 3.5.5 Fixed an issue where field values were improperly overwritten when the instance was set to prepend in some cases 3.5.5

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 76 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Italian 53%
Spanish (Spain) 51%
German 50%
Polish 47%
English (Canada) 13%
Romanian 12%
English (UK) 9%
French (France) 9%
German (Formal) 9%
Japanese 9%
Dutch 8%
English (Australia) 8%
Hebrew 8%
Portuguese (Brazil) 8%
Russian 8%
Cebuano 7%
Dutch (Formal) 7%
English (South Africa) 7%
Portuguese (Portugal) 7%
Swedish 7%
Azerbaijani 6%
Croatian 6%
Esperanto 6%
Finnish 6%

Plus 52 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-04-29 9K+ → 8K+ down after 245 days in tier
  2. 2025-08-27 10K+ → 9K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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