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Comment Image

by Stefano Lissa · Uncategorized

Also makes 17 other plugins · 413.7K+ installs across the portfolio →

Enable readers to attach an image to their comments.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 45/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

1K+

≈1.5K estimated

Momentum

+36%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “attachments”, “comments” and “gif” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 58 average across 25,734 Uncategorized plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

2.4%

of downloads still active

At least 1K of 42.1K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,766 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.8.19.

Details

Version
1.2.3
Last updated
5.2y ago
Added
2009-08-27 · 17 yrs old
Requires WP
4.6
Tested up to
5.8.19
Requires PHP
5.6

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.

46 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 4/100

Updated 1890 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 32/100

Tested up to WordPress 5.8.19; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 57/100

4.2★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 1890 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+36% vs prior 30d
1231 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 282 · peaks are release surges

28231 Oct 2026

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

Comment Image · #6573youFancyBox for WordPre · #947Lightbox with PhotoS · #1091Multi Image Metabox · #2573

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.231 Oct 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

4531 Oct 2026

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.

28231 Oct 2026

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

5.2y ago

latest release · v1.2.3 · 28 Aug 2021

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2.3 · 28 Aug 2021

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.2 98%
v1.0 1.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.5K

Crossed into this band 2.7 years ago; the previous band took 2.9 years to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 23 Nov 2015

1K31 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ bassicsax
    10.7y ago

    I’ve had this plugin in my WP blog for years. Thank you so much for developing it, and keeping it up to date! This plugin is so helpful in what I do, it would be hard to imagine my site without it. Thank you again!…helen

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  2. ★★★★★ the311guy
    11.4y ago

    It says it only supports jpg, but I tried png and it works! You can delete the text that says it only supports jpeg in the Settings > Comment Image and you’re good to go. I haven’t tried .gif, but I’m sure it works as well. Most modern browsers let you put any image extension on any image and it knows what to display. Lost 1 star because images are forced to be a certain size. Lets say you set thumbnails to 500px. If the image is only 100px wide, it will still stretch to 500px. Would be great to be able to show large images in comments without everything being stretched to max width.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  3. ★★★★★ salabinha
    11.4y ago

    Plugin works great! Thank you for your time developing!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  4. ★★★★★ Sigfred
    12.0y ago

    nice one… but it’s much more better if it support all kind of images not just jpg.. but still good job

    Read on wp.org ↗
  5. ★★★★★ webcomm
    12.5y ago

    I activated the module but see no visible sign that it works.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  6. ★★★★★ Corrado Prever
    13.2y ago

    good job

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8

✓ 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 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Italian 100%
Swedish 100%

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

2 of 8 pass · checked 24 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Enable readers to attach an image to their comments."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
  • ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 558 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "attachments" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2024-02-09 2K+ → 1K+ down after 1073 days in tier
  2. 2021-03-03 3K+ → 2K+ down after 477 days in tier
  3. 2019-11-12 4K+ → 3K+ down after 357 days in tier
  4. 2018-11-20 3K+ → 4K+ up

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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