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EXIF Viewer

by veleno · Media

EXIF Viewer displays EXIF data in Edit Media Screen, appends EXIF data to JPEG media page content, enables media archives

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 69 average across 686 Media plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 4.8.28, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 9/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3301 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-55% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

52

now · peak 162

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

EXIF Viewer · #22266 Media Cleaner: Clean · #483 Media Library Assist · #624 Clean Image Filename · #969

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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
40–50 ≈47

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

At the current install trend, crossing 50+ in roughly 342 days.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations

Details

Version
0.1
Last updated
9.0y ago
Added
2017-07-03 · 9 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.8
Tested up to
4.8.28
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-13 30+ → 40+ up after 135 days in band
  2. 2026-01-29 40+ → 30+ down after 105 days in band
  3. 2025-10-16 30+ → 40+ up after 58 days in band
  4. 2025-08-19 40+ → 30+ down after 345 days in band
  5. 2024-09-08 50+ → 40+ down after 539 days in band
  6. 2023-03-19 60+ → 50+ down after 1 days in band
  7. 2023-03-18 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in band
  8. 2023-03-17 60+ → 50+ down

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EXIF Viewer: 40+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/exif-viewer