Elastic Slide
by foo123 · Media
Fully responsive Posts slider based on Elastislide script
45 health vs 60 average across 1,496 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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 4667 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 2022-10-07 · 1,379 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
104
now · peak 115
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “20+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-06 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-08-14 30+ → 20+ down after 159 days in band
- 2025-03-08 40+ → 30+ down after 17 days in band
- 2025-02-19 30+ → 40+ up after 77 days in band
- 2024-12-04 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-12-03 30+ → 40+ up after 9 days in band
- 2024-11-24 40+ → 30+ down after 393 days in band
- 2023-10-28 50+ → 40+ down after 8 days in band
- 2023-10-20 40+ → 50+ up after 7 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle 400K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
GenerateBlocks 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag B
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