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bxSlider integration for WordPress

by Vincent Mimoun-Prat · Media

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bxSlider for WordPress integrates the great responsive content slider "bxSlider jQuery plugin" in your very own WordPress site.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
47 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

47 health vs 59 average across 2,206 Media plugins

500+

Active installs

≈580 estimated

39.3K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.21★

Rating (adjusted)

4.4★ raw · 21 reviews

+47%

132

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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 3.9.40, 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.

41 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4198 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+47% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

132

now · peak 156

12630d 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

bxSlider integration · #9062 you Smart Slider 3 · #78 Carousel, Slider, Ph · #612 Slick Slider · #4973

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.4Stars · 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.

252per 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

11.5y ago

latest release · v1.7.2

18

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.7.2 · 11.5y ago1.6.2 · 12.0y ago1.6.1 · 12.0y ago1.6.0 · 12.3y ago1.5.3 · 12.4y ago1.5.2 · 12.4y ago1.5.1 · 12.6y ago1.5.0 · 12.8y ago1.4.2 · 13.0y ago1.4.1 · 13.1y ago1.4.0 · 13.1y ago1.3.3 · 13.3y ago1.3.2 · 13.3y ago1.3.1 · 13.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 97% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.7 97%
v1.6 3.3%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈580

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

Install history · since 2015-09-19 · 1,420 observations

500Installs · 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 · 21 reviews

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5★
16 4★
1 3★
2 2★
0 1★
2

Details

Version
1.7.2
Last updated
11.5y ago
Added
2013-04-01 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
3.9.40
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ animalfield
    7.5y ago

    Hi I just updated to WordPress 5 and the plugin is not working. No errors, but slider does not display properly. Help?

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  2. ★★★★★ hauge.james
    11.4y ago

    about a year ago I spent a full week searching the internet for a great slider to use in the sites I was building… Once I found this plugin, started playing with it a bit, I LOVE it! It can do so much and it’s so simple! Thank you for bringing this slider to wordpress!

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  3. ★★★★★ willbraden
    11.4y ago

    Looked forever for a slider that could handle more than just images, but was simple enough / without bloat. Thank you!

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  4. ★★★★★ Edwin Brinkhuis
    11.5y ago

    Just what I needed to build into my template.

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  5. ★★★★★ bhenselmann
    12.1y ago

    with better documentation for theme integration it´s 5-star worth

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  6. ★★★★★ Rachel Winspear
    12.3y ago

    I have been looking for something like this for a while… I just wanted to be able to upload native images to a wordpress post and for the images to be displayed with a shortcode… this does just that – Brilliant!!

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  7. ★★★★★ Richard B
    12.3y ago

    Did exactly what I wanted straight away. If you’re looking for a gallery slider this is it.

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  8. ★★★★★ vinciandres
    12.3y ago

    Simple, yet powerfull, this versatil slide plugin is one of the best free solutions i ever found. 🙂

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. Medium · 6.4 bxSlider integration for WordPress <= 1.7.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
    2025-08-21 CVE-2025-48347 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.7.2 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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. 2025-11-23 600+ → 500+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-22 500+ → 600+ up after 8 days in tier
  3. 2025-11-14 600+ → 500+ down after 4 days in tier
  4. 2025-11-10 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-11-09 600+ → 500+ down after 16 days in tier
  6. 2025-10-24 500+ → 600+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-10-23 600+ → 500+ down after 221 days in tier
  8. 2025-03-16 700+ → 600+ down after 32 days in tier

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