Full Screen Galleries
by Nick Halsey · Media
Also makes 23 other plugins · 20.6K+ installs across the portfolio →
Full Screen Galleries creates an automatic full-screen slideshow mode for image galleries in your content. Posts and pages with several immages are au …
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Health
A 85/100
Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈190 estimated
Momentum
+5%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “screen” and “full” to your wp.org tags. You rank #7 and #9 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
85 health vs 62 average across 3,287 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.8%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 3.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,321 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.
This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 106 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.17★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
35
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.4
Velocity
places per keyword, 27d
13%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 27d
-0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| full screen | #2 | #10 | 0 |
| screen | #7 | #20 | 0 |
| full | #9 | #21 | down 1 |
| slider full screen | #9 | #17 | down 2 |
| screen content | #22 | #24 | up 1 |
| automatic your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| images your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| media your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
18 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 5 listed. 13 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
- Add “screen” and “full” to your wp.org tags. You rank #7 and #9 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 207 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow 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
4mo ago
latest release · v1.4 · 19 Jul 2026
5
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. 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 “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3.4 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.
Install history since 23 Feb 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ mobarakseo12mo ago
Good Plugin
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ maikunari4.8y ago
Thank you for this simple yet perfect plugin. Very much appreciated!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ dbm445.6y ago
Saw a positive review on WP Tavern for this plugin, so decided to try it out. Very simple to install and use. It really does work well and have used it to replace other gallery plugins which were bloated and much more complicated.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Jakob Wiens5.6y ago
It doesn’t clutter up the admin menu like most other gallery plugins and just works right off the bat. Looks like I will be using this plugin a lot in the future 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more
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
4 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Full Screen Galleries creates an automatic full-screen slideshow mode for image galleries in your content...."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 13 questions in the FAQ.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 11 of 13 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Hide Specific Images from the Slideshow").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,319 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 4 tags appear in the text; "media" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2023-06-05 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-06-04 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-06-03 90+ → 100+ up after 17 days in tier
- 2023-05-17 100+ → 90+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2023-05-14 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-05-13 100+ → 90+ down after 13 days in tier
- 2023-04-30 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-04-29 100+ → 90+ down after 1 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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ACF Galerie 4 2K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags B -
Responsive Lightbox & Gallery 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
Lightbox & Modal Popup WordPress Plugin – FooBox 100K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
Media Cleaner: Delete Unused Images & Clean Your Media Library 90K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Media Library Assistant 70K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Clean Image Filenames 30K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags B
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