EL-Gallery
by Eric Lowry · Media
EL-Gallery is an elegant untra-lightweight javascript & css gallery replacement for Wordpress.
46 health vs 59 average across 2,204 Media plugins
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 4.7.35, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 3503 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,428 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
36
now · peak 82
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
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
9.6y ago
latest release · v1.5
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 2022-10-04 · 1,384 observations
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
Est. acquisition value
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.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Esperia-RP12.0y 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 Lowry12.2y 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 ↗ - ★★★★★ AlphaGammaArchi12.2y 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 ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4
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 2K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
Animated Typed JS Shortcode 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D -
fancyBox 3 for WordPress 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
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