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Social Photo Fetcher

by JK · Social

Also makes 2 other plugins · 1.8K+ installs across the portfolio →

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Allows you to automatically create Wordpress photo galleries from Facebook albums. Simple to use and highly customizable.

How scoring works →
81 Health · B
Maintenance 99/100
Rating quality 69/100
Support 70/100

81 health vs 55 average across 1,135 Social plugins

1K+

Active installs

≈1.5K estimated

260.9K

Total downloads

since 2010

3.78★

Rating (adjusted)

3.7★ raw · 12 reviews

+19%

332

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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.

78 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: WP compatibility

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 41/100
Rating quality 64/100
Listing tuning 100/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+19% vs prior 30d
22Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

332

now · peak 1.2K

34030d downloads · Aug 26

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

Social Photo Fetcher · #5456 you FancyBox for WordPre · #944 Responsive Lightbox · #321 Lightbox & Modal Pop · #424

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.7Stars · Aug 26

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.

340per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

1

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v3.0.5

83

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.0.5 · 3mo ago3.0.4 · 2.4y ago3.0.3 · 5.7y ago3.0.2 · 6.0y ago3.0.1 · 6.0y ago3.0 · 6.1y ago2.10 · 6.4y ago2.9.1.1 · 6.8y ago2.9.1 · 6.9y ago2.9.0 · 7.0y ago2.8.0.1 · 7.2y ago2.8 · 7.2y ago2.7.1 · 7.2y ago2.7 · 7.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.0 84%
v2.5 5.6%
Older / other versions 9.9%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.5K

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

Install history · since 2015-06-01 · 1,430 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

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

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

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.

Ratings · 12 reviews

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5★
4 4★
3 3★
3 2★
1 1★
1

Details

Version
3.0.5
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2010-03-06 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
2.5
Tested up to
6.0.14
Requires PHP
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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. Medium · 4.3 Social Photo Fetcher <= 3.0.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
    2025-12-08 CVE-2025-62872 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 3.0.4 No patch available

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 Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 131 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Japanese 17%
Spanish (Spain) 13%
English (Canada) 9%
French (France) 9%
Italian 9%
Serbian 9%
Dutch 8%
English (UK) 8%
Portuguese (Portugal) 8%
Basque 6%
Chinese (China) 6%
Danish 6%
German 6%
Hebrew 6%
Indonesian 6%
Korean 6%
Norwegian (Bokmål) 6%
Portuguese (Brazil) 6%
Russian 6%
Turkish 6%
Albanian 5%
Arabic 5%
Armenian 5%
Azerbaijani 5%

Plus 107 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-02-12 2K+ → 1K+ down after 682 days in tier
  2. 2024-04-01 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2024-03-31 2K+ → 3K+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2024-03-30 3K+ → 2K+ down after 10 days in tier
  5. 2024-03-20 2K+ → 3K+ up after 2 days in tier
  6. 2024-03-18 3K+ → 2K+ down

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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