EL-Gallery
by Eric Lowry · Media
EL-Gallery is an elegant untra-lightweight javascript & css gallery replacement for Wordpress.
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Health
D 46/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈16 estimated
Momentum
+24%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “css3”, “gallery” and “jquery” 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.
46 health vs 62 average across 3,292 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.2%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 4.4K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,323 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.
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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39, well behind 6.8.
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 3565 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.7.39; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.15★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 3565 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| css3 your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| jquery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| shortcode your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| wp 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
- “css3”, “gallery” and “jquery” 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 82 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,400 to #44,800, alongside the other plugins at 10+ 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.
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
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
9.8y ago
latest release · v1.5 · 28 Jan 2017
21
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% 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 “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Esperia-RP12.2y ago
This plugin is perfect. It does exactly what it says : the galleries are simple, light, load fast and just blend in with the rest of your site… There really isn’t much to say ! Oh, and it took me a tiny while to figure out what some options did, but their effects are really quite obvious, so I figured it out fast enough.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Eric Lowry12.4y ago
I designed this plugin to respond to a few criteria : It had to function perfectly on any responsive website, so I made it entirely percentage-based. This way, whatever the size of your screen/website, it will always fit in tightly. It had to function with Lightbox plugins, and it should. It had to be lightweight, so I avoided using a huge set of resources, and coded the plugin directly according to what I needed. My website really wouldn’t be the same without this gallery, and I hope you will enjoy it as well.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ AlphaGammaArchi12.4y ago
At [site link removed] we had huge problems with inserting images into our posts, they never really fit correctly into the flow of the article. Part of the problem was our responsive theme not adapting how images work out on smaller screens, and part of it was the sheer amount of images we were using took up way too much space. This plugin took care of all of this : it fits in nicely into our design and it works just fine with the lightbox plugin we are using !
Read on wp.org ↗
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
3 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 One audience phrase ("if you have"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 5 headings and 4 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,900 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "jquery" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
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).
- J jQuery Lightbox For Native Galleries 4K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
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WP Featherlight Disabled 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags C - C Cleaner Gallery 2K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
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Alligator Popup 1K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags C -
Animated Typed JS Shortcode 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags C -
fancyBox 3 for WordPress 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
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