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Fancy Lightbox

by Alobaidi · Uncategorized

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Add fancy lightbox easily, responsive lightbox and easy to use, without options and without complexity, compatible with all major browsers.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 78/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

500+

Active installs

≈570 estimated

15.7K

Total downloads

since 2015

4.11★

Rating (adjusted)

4.8★ raw · 4 reviews

+64%

144

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.6.30, 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.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 7/100
Rating quality 55/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3661 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+64% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

144

now · peak 218

14030d 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

Fancy Lightbox · #8938 you FancyBox for WordPre · #944 ARI Fancy Lightbox · #1777 FancyBox · #3612

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.8Stars · 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.

280per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “500+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
500–600 ≈570

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

Install history · since 2015-10-16 · 1,429 observations

500Installs · 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 · 4 reviews

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5★
3 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
10.0y ago
Added
2015-10-09 · 10 yrs old
Requires WP
2.6.0
Tested up to
4.6.30
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Lohith M
    9.2y ago

    Works fine with the wordpress 4.7.5 version. Please give a option to enable div to show in popup too.

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  2. ★★★★★ davidp378
    9.7y ago

    It’s a lightbox plugin…it works. Not bad.

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  3. ★★★★★ Sekander Badsha
    10.6y ago

    No configuration, just simple responsive popup. Thanks to the developer 😀

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  4. ★★★★★ kmiller1108
    10.9y ago

    I’ve been searching and searching for a WP lightbox plugin where I can have a different thumbnail from the image that will be displayed in the lightbox. With this plugin I can add the lightbox popup to any image or link with one line of code. <a href="http://wp-time.com/your-image-link.png"><img src="http://wp-time.com/your-image-link.png"></a> Awesome

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Behavioral tests

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Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-12-27 600+ → 500+ down after 475 days in tier
  2. 2024-09-08 700+ → 600+ down after 8 days in tier
  3. 2024-08-31 600+ → 700+ up after 4 days in tier
  4. 2024-08-27 700+ → 600+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-08-26 600+ → 700+ up after 8 days in tier
  6. 2024-08-18 700+ → 600+ down after 49 days in tier
  7. 2024-06-30 800+ → 700+ down after 23 days in tier
  8. 2024-06-07 700+ → 800+ up after 9 days in tier

Competes with

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