Featured Image Zoom

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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.

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7 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 5 listed. 2 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 4 months ago and the previous band took 5.6 years to cross, so the real count is still just under 1K.

1. ★★★★★ TLCJohn

   6.4y ago

   Hi Michael, I have just singed in to WordPress.org to say what a great plugin you have designed. We have a detailed Burial map and your plugin has made it very easy to read. We were using a pluging called image magnifier but this is now sadly 5 years out of date. Your plugin worked just great, very simple to set up and I will be downloading it again for other maps and drawings, we need to let people see the detail of.. All the very best for now. Cheers John

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2. ★★★★★ Jefe

   7.0y ago

   You have to exclude images in Jetpack to work properly This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Jefe.

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3. ★★★★★ ecohostingservices

   7.2y ago

   This is a great plugin to zoom into a featured image such as a map. Zoom in too much ie 6 and the image becomes too blurred so 2 is all I need and it does the job perfectly.

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4. ★★★★★ csandreas1

   9.1y ago

   Thanks for the plugin and the great support, i was looking for a plugin to magnify my featured images when hover, only on post pages to show in detail the PC repairs my client does. This light plugin made it! Exactly what i wanted This topic was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by csandreas1. This topic was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by csandreas1. This topic was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by csandreas1.

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5. ★★★★★ emrullahzengin

   10.5y ago

   [zoom]  I am writing code. then add the image. It did not happen again. I want this code on work. Maybe if you were told we could understand the true video. guess you do not work with this plugin. Good Luck.

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6. ★★★★★ CrouchingBruin

   11.5y ago

   Does exactly what it is meant to do: display the featured image that you’ve set in your post and provide a way for users to zoom in on detail. I would say that there are two improvements that could be made: Place the featured image where the [zoom] shortcode was found in the post/page. I managed to come up with a quick workaround: I added this empty <div> to the place in my page where I wanted the featured image to be inserted: <div class="zoom-here"></div> And then I added this jQuery that moves the featured image inside of that div: <script> jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $(".zoom-here").append($(".zoom-wrapper")); }); </script> It would be nice to display a “Loading…” GIF instead of the featured image until the background image (zoom container) has finished loading. This would be especially useful if the background image is large, because the user might wonder why the zoom isn’t working when the rest of the page has already been displayed but not the background image. I tried to do that using a document.load() and window.load() event handler, but couldn’t get it to work, I’m assuming because the plugin uses its own .load() function to load the zoom container. You can see a demo here.

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7. ★★★★★ aalexswww

   11.9y ago

   1. Functionality is low – No admin page settings – use shortcode in every page it’s not comfortable for users – no functions — zoom/magnify image on hover in independed window like in https://s.w.org/plugins/zoom-image/screenshot-1.jpg?r=1044006 of https://wordpress.org/plugins/zoom-image/screenshots/ 2. In WordPress 4.0.1 bug with reloading page http://gyazo.com/7ceb98847681af20cb2123fd119d2fa6

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8. ★★★★★ Johnny Demarch

   12.6y ago

   Was not finding a way to make the plugin work. The support that the developer gave me helped a lot! Thankssss

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-06-28 1K+ → 900+ down after 2036 days in tier
2. 2020-11-30 500+ → 1K+ up

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