Colorbox Panels & Info Box

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Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.

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5 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 4 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank vs rivals

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

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 86% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 3.4 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ makehop

   3.8y ago

   Very good!

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2. ★★★★★ nspra

   4.3y ago

   oki This topic was modified 4 years ago by nspra.

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3. ★★★★★ John

   5.6y ago

   This plugin is awesome, especially for its very affordable pro version that allows implementing versatile box everywhere and particularly for users allergic to Gutenberg blocks because you may design whatever you need just with Classic Editor.

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4. ★★★★★ webgalway

   5.8y ago

   Keep getting annoying Christmas ad offer showing in wp-admin for wpshopmart – so have to delete plugin itself to be rid of them – fair enough if you want to advertise on your own plugin settings page but every page in wp-admin is too much

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5. ★★★★★ Tom

   7.5y ago

   Maybe it’s just me, but the limitations on the free version are very harsh. The only gratis feature is to display the box title (or hide it). It just didn’t come close to my expectations when looking at the overview Features vs Pro Features. Bye the way, I was looking for a simple tool. Nothing fancy, so I thought this was it.

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6. ★★★★★ Trebly

   7.7y ago

   As I tell in the title the limits of the product are quickly reached. What are these limits, I just give some examples: No user color palette : if you want to define your colors you must memorize your colors and paste hexa value for each box. Default value of user colors have same value for chars and background if you don’t change the chars value you get no display… It misses just set default chars color to black !!! You tell it to support and two month after there is no no answer, what you tell is always forgotten by support.after one or two days If you have developed for your pages a js routine to calculate elements position when the window is resized the two events “resize” (one into your code and the one of the colorbox which adapts the display to the width). I margin left or right changed and the display is not redefined (missing on(‘…’) launch position calculation. So colorbox cannot be managed if you have a js manager which can change some elements of the display and affect usable width : no compatibility. To know : any box has H3 header and the content his the H3 content, but you cannot define complementary attributes. Consequently you are unable to associate classes or “data-” attributes with the elementary boxes. I explain if you can add classes or “data-” attributes you can use jquery to hold particular actions defined by a script (for example zoom the box into a FancyBox) or display any information, hide temporarily elementary boxes which have a define class etc. The icons for elementary boxes headers are very limited, you cannot add others libraries of icons etc. Support doesn’t answer at all. … when questions are not basic. I have written seven messages I have got just once a few words of answer which were with really no relation with the question. This while I had bought the full unlimited license.

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7. ★★★★★ knsato

   8.1y ago

   Very Good! color box is so cool!

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8. ★★★★★ Apex-Editor

   8.3y ago

   I very much enjoy using this plugin. It has added delightful variety to my articles. The only issue I have is that the bottom of the boxes seems to clip out and not load properly. Usually reloading the page fixes the problem, but readers aren’t going to do that. So that’s disappointing. It has been going on for essentially for as long as I’ve had the plugin. Solve that and it’s perfect.

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2023-06-19 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2023-06-18 1K+ → 2K+ up after 6 days in tier
3. 2023-06-12 2K+ → 1K+ down

Competes with

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Colorbox Panels & Info Box: 1K+ active installs, 4.6★ (44 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/colorbox-panels