Creative Image Slider – Responsive Slider Plugin
by Creative-Solutions · Media
Also makes 3 other plugins · 4K+ installs across the portfolio →
Creative Image Slider is a responsive jQuery image slider with amazing visual effects.
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Health
C 56/100
Stale · Likely abandoned
Active installs
200+
≈250 estimated
Momentum
+12%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “image slider”, “slider” and “slider plugin” 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.
56 health vs 62 average across 3,286 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.3%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 65.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,320 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Media 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
28/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.
Details
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.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 846 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.5.14; the current branch is 6.8
3.5★ over 18 reviews, smoothed to 3.94★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 846 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| image slider your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| slider your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| slider plugin your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| slideshow your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| wordpress slider your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “image slider”, “slider” and “slider plugin” 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.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 272 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
2.3y ago
latest release · v2.6.0 · 8 Jul 2024
9
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 50% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 8 months ago; the previous band took 16 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 10 Mar 2015
Reviewer account pattern
from wp.org reviewer profiles8 of the last 10 four- and five-star reviews came from accounts created within a month of posting the review.
Registering a wp.org account just to leave a review is common and often entirely legitimate. The share here is unusually high for the sample, so it's worth keeping in mind while reading the reviews.
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ richardjberry2.3y ago
An issue had occured after 3 years of using this plugin, likely as not as a result of a clash with an upgrade to another plugin, but this pluging was the only one that was reported as being an issue. The developers rersolved this the same day with an update.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ WebDragon10.4y ago
delete the demo slider and items, add a new slider, and it tells you to buy the commercial version if you want more than five items (you currently have NONE at this point) and won’t let you add ANY (not even just one) images to your new empty slider. needs work. too much greed. It looks great, but I can’t even demo the thing with a client’s images for a homepage slider
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ scottishalex10.5y ago
Excellent service and support is not a given when buying plugins, but Simon went well beyond that. The slider itself is first class and does what I needed most which was to be able to show images with different ratios, both landscape and portrait without having to crop or resize, and not be restricted to a fixed width for each image, so no blank spaces. There’s a lot more to the slider that I haven’t even looked at yet, but what I am using is perfect. I think images and photos should be shown as they were intended, not cropped to a fixed ratio. Every image is unique and Creative Image Slider respects that. And it’s very cheap, and that’s without even going into the time saved not having to work out the best crop for each image.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Mercury_pl10.8y ago
This is pice of great work! Very extensive plugin, with plenty options in order to customize your own slider. Very easy to implenet on wordpress site, intuitive menus. What is more author is openminded person for customer requests! – which is very important. Without any doubt I can recommend this plugin. Nice work!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ RobertoV11.2y ago
Creative Image Slider is a responsive slider with amazing visual effects. Plagin with multiple options to show captions without coding.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Kattino11.3y ago
plugin with many options and settings
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ juan_sosa11.6y ago
Good work go on.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ carpab11.6y ago
Was not pleased with the difficulty of use in the free version, if you want to see how it’d actually work you’d have to buy it, im not buying anything without knowing how it works inside and out, your demo is not sufficient.
Read on wp.org ↗
Security history
via Wordfence IntelligenceThe 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (2.6.0). Sites still on an older version should update.
- Patched Medium · 6.1 Creative Image Slider – Responsive Slider Plugin <= 2.1.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗2024-03-28 CVE-2024-30447 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 2.1.3 Patched in 2.5.0
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
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.5.5
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 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! 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 3 headings and 3 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,625 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("slider plugin", "slideshow", "wordpress slider" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-03-13 300+ → 200+ down after 469 days in tier
- 2024-11-29 400+ → 300+ down after 234 days in tier
- 2024-04-09 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-04-08 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-04-07 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-04-06 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2024-04-05 500+ → 400+ down after 292 days in tier
- 2023-06-18 600+ → 500+ down after 7 days in tier
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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Video Slider – Slider Carousel 3K+ installs · 4.6★ · 4 shared tags C -
Slider Carousel – Image Slider 3K+ installs · 4.4★ · 4 shared tags C -
Smart Slider 3 800K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A -
Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider 60K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags B
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