Awesome simple gallery plugin to display your Flickr Photostream, Favourites, Galleries and Albums on your website.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
40+
≈48 estimated
Momentum
+17%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “album” for “flickr photostream”. “album” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “flickr photostream” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
45 health vs 62 average across 3,293 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.4%
of downloads still active
At least 40 of 9.8K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,323 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Media plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.23.
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.
Under-optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 2101 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.6.23; the current branch is 6.8
4.3★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 2101 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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.
33
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 22d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 22d
0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| photostream your tag | #6 | #5 | 0 |
| flickr photostream | #6 | #6 | 0 |
| album your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| flickr your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| photos your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
5 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 2 listed. 3 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “album” for “flickr photostream”. “album” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “flickr photostream” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 93 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #21,400 to #22,800, alongside the other plugins at 40+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 1 Nov 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
5.8y ago
latest release · v1.1.8 · 31 Jan 2021
11
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “40+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 50.
Install history since 13 Jan 2020
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ asim5tellar6.3y ago
Tried multiple plugins this was the only plugin that worked for me.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ brightgirl7.7y ago
Installed it, activated it, and suddenly our home page was all broken. Deactivated it and home page went back to normal, so it was definitely some kind of conflict with this plugin. Too bad, was looking forward to using it! Will have to find another option.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ kevwen7729.6y ago
Your plugin is the 4th one I have tried and yours actually works. Congrats on that. All I need to show specific albums. This is for a Boy Scout group and I am showing albums from campouts and events on individual posts.
Read on wp.org ↗
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
5 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Awesome simple gallery plugin to display your Flickr Photostream, Favourites, Galleries and Albums on your..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 1 question in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 1 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you have"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Twitter.
- ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 6 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,454 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
- 2026-08-26 50+ → 40+ down after 151 days in tier
- 2026-03-28 60+ → 50+ down after 57 days in tier
- 2026-01-30 70+ → 60+ down after 9 days in tier
- 2026-01-21 60+ → 70+ up after 10 days in tier
- 2026-01-11 70+ → 60+ down after 48 days in tier
- 2025-11-24 80+ → 70+ down after 99 days in tier
- 2025-08-17 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-08-16 80+ → 90+ up after 16 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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Meks Simple Flickr Widget 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags C -
WoowGallery 1K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags B -
Gallery for Google Photos – share your albums right on your site 1K+ installs · 3.5★ · 3 shared tags B - S Simple Google Photos Grid 900+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags C
- Q Quick Flickr Widget 400+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags D
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Photonic Gallery & Lightbox for Flickr, SmugMug & Others 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B
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