Blip Slideshow
by Jason Hendriks · Content & Feeds
A WordPress slideshow plugin fed from a SmugMug, Flickr, MobileMe, Picasa or Photobucket RSS feed and displayed using pure Javascript.
41 health vs 59 average across 585 Content & Feeds 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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, 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 4202 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
24
now · peak 73
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 · 1,367 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-04-25 40+ → 30+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-04-22 30+ → 40+ up after 57 days in tier
- 2026-02-24 40+ → 30+ down after 332 days in tier
- 2025-03-29 50+ → 40+ down after 46 days in tier
- 2025-02-11 60+ → 50+ down after 92 days in tier
- 2024-11-11 50+ → 60+ up after 27 days in tier
- 2024-10-15 60+ → 50+ down after 387 days in tier
- 2023-09-24 70+ → 60+ down after 87 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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RSS for Yandex Zen 4K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags C
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