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Gallery Columns

by Safirul Alredha · Media

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Force and overwrite the current number of [gallery] columns without altering or tampering its original options.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 59 average across 2,206 Media plugins

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

5.6K

Total downloads

since 2010

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+86%

39

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 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1, 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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5495 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+86% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

39

now · peak 61

3930d 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

Gallery Columns · #24690 you Responsive Lightbox · #321 Lightbox & Modal Pop · #425 Lightbox with PhotoS · #1105

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.

1.9Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

15.1y ago

latest release · v1.0.3

4

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.3 · 15.1y ago1.0.2 · 15.1y ago1.0.1 · 16.4y ago1.0 · 16.4y ago

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 “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

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

Install history · since 2021-08-17 · 1,366 observations

20Installs · 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 · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.3
Last updated
15.1y ago
Added
2010-04-21 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
3.1
Tested up to
3.2.1
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Fox666
    11.8y ago

    The plugin overrides the number of columns for galleries, like it’s supposed to do. Since this plugin is probably gonna be used to adapt a blog to a specific theme, It would be good if you could choose a different number of columns for different page templates. But that’s not essential.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4

✓ 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. 2026-06-20 30+ → 20+ down after 429 days in tier
  2. 2025-04-17 40+ → 30+ down after 137 days in tier
  3. 2024-12-01 50+ → 40+ down after 285 days in tier
  4. 2024-02-20 60+ → 50+ down after 297 days in tier
  5. 2023-04-29 70+ → 60+ down

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