Gallery for Google Photos – share your albums right on your site
by bPlugins · Blocks
Also makes 105 other plugins · 209.4K+ installs across the portfolio →
Import Google Photos or paste a shared album link, and show them as responsive grid, masonry, carousel, or story galleries.
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Health
B 82/100
Few reviews
Active installs
1K+
≈1.8K estimated
Momentum
+82%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “block” for “albums”. “block” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “albums” sits at #18 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
82 health vs 71 average across 2,523 Blocks plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →6.8%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 14.7K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Blocks plugin keeps 2.1%, across 1,579 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Blocks plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 5 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 1 day ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
2.7★ over 6 reviews, smoothed to 3.95★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
36
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.5
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
15%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.5
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| google photos your tag | #10 | #23 | 0 |
| albums | #18 | #24 | down 2 |
| photos your tag | #19 | #24 | up 1 |
| album your tag | #19 | #24 | down 2 |
| embed google photos | #7 | #23 | up 1 |
| add album | #19 | #24 | up 1 |
| add albums | #19 | #24 | up 1 |
| wordpress albums | #22 | #24 | 0 |
| block your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
60 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 8 listed. 52 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “block” for “albums”. “block” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “albums” sits at #18 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 14 May 2024 · 901 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 2.3K · peaks are release surges
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
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
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
5
releases in the last 12 months
13d ago
latest release · v1.3.1 · 18 Oct 2026
14
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. 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 “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 10 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 82% of the way through.
Install history since 13 May 2024
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ zinizcheng775mo ago
i tried many plugins but i finally come back to this one as suggested by AI. it’s just stupid to setup all the things (like the Client ID, Client Secret, Refresh Token) and the documents just ask you to add them? so useless and a total waste of time!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ novgorod1.3y ago
Since April 2025 Google removed public API access of the photos library entirely. The “Photos Library API” can now only access photos that were created through the API, which is completely useless, and there is no replacement other than using a plugin based on web-scraping a shared album link. Or you can reverse-engineer the private API of the official Google app or website, but who has time for that? Another step-up in evilness for Google (they can go and choke on a c*ck), and 3 stars for the effort to make the only API-based plugin for this. Back to scraping it is – at least it costs Google more money in traffic and webhosting.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ weetameal1.5y ago
Working well. You just need to read the instruction well to create the API token.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ gnfb1.7y ago
This has what seems like 500 pages of google stuff to try and do first get a degree from mit then take a week off if you want to install
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ massebooks1.7y ago
So many things wrong with this plugin starting with the horrible instructions. You activate the install the plugin, activate it…then what? There are no instructions – you have to go hunt them down. And unless you have a deep knowledge of Google API’s don’t waste your time. Even after I finally got everything set up, the plugin and Google API would not connect to each other. An hour out of my life gone with nothing to show for it.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ uweha2.1y ago
One of the best plugin to take Google Photos and Google Album into a wordpress post. The description for integrating Google Photos is very detailed. Anyone can do that!
Read on wp.org ↗
Security history
via Wordfence IntelligenceThe 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (1.3.1). Sites still on an older version should update.
- Patched Medium · 5.3 Gallery for Google Photos <= 1.2.0 - Unauthenticated Google OAuth Token Disclosure ↗2026-07-23 CVE-2026-15236 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Affects <= 1.2.0 Patched in 1.2.1
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 7.0.1
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 2 languages, 0 at 90% or more
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
8 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 "Import Google Photos or paste a shared album link, and show them as responsive grid, masonry, carousel, or..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 17 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 17 of 17 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("use it", "great for", "for photographers").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gutenberg, Block editor, Facebook, Pinterest and 1 more.
- ✓ Headings and lists 22 headings and 32 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 15,430 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-06 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-05 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-01-04 900+ → 1K+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-01-01 1K+ → 900+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2025-12-30 900+ → 1K+ up after 7 days in tier
- 2025-12-23 1K+ → 900+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2025-12-19 900+ → 1K+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-12-18 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 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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CTC Masonry Gallery 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags A
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