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Gallery Image Content Post

by PenciDesign · Media

Also makes 1 other plugin · 730+ installs across the portfolio →

Auto add the lightbox gallery or single image lightbox for your content post

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 45/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

30+

≈37 estimated

Momentum

-32%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “gallery image”, “gallery image content post” and “gallery image content post wordpress” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 62 average across 3,286 Media plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.7%

of downloads still active

At least 30 of 4.3K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,320 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.

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 4.5.33, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
1.2
Last updated
10.6y ago
Added
2015-05-01 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
4.5.33
Requires PHP
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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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3860 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 6/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.5.33; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 52/100

5.0★ over 2 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 92/100

4 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3860 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-32% vs prior 30d
01 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 157 · peaks are release surges

6531 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #23,100 to #25,000, alongside the other plugins at 30+ 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.

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 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

10.6y ago

latest release · v1.2 · 7 Apr 2016

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2 · 7 Apr 20161.0 · 1 Aug 2015

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.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “30+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
30–40 ≈37

Crossed into this band 5 months ago; the previous band took 16 months to cross, which places it about 68% of the way through.

Install history since 1 Jun 2015

301 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ lenwbrown
    10.9y ago

    I had been trying to find a lightbox that easily let me choose to show only the image clicked and would return to the page when clicked anywhere on the screen while the lightbox was displaying the image. This not only does exactly that, but it only has three options, making it brain-dead easy to use! 1. Display only clicked image or display and click-through all images on post/page. 2. Zoom in/out effect when rendering lightbox, or instantly display lightbox. 3. Display title of image in lightbox or not. Totally worth 5-stars. Thank you! Simple specific-purpose plugins like this are getting harder to find. This one’s definitely a keeper.

    Read on wp.org ↗
  2. ★★★★★ dth2411
    11.5y ago

    Works nice, smooth and easy. Great!

    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

4 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Auto add the lightbox gallery or single image lightbox for your content post"
  • ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Configuration to use it").
  • ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Zoom.
  • ✓ Headings and lists 2 headings and 1 list.
  • ! Enough to quote 596 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "gallery image content post", "gallery image content post wordpress" do not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-03 40+ → 30+ down after 476 days in tier
  2. 2025-02-12 50+ → 40+ down after 273 days in tier
  3. 2024-05-15 60+ → 50+ down after 227 days in tier
  4. 2023-10-01 70+ → 60+ down after 8 days in tier
  5. 2023-09-23 60+ → 70+ up after 12 days in tier
  6. 2023-09-11 70+ → 60+ down after 294 days in tier
  7. 2022-11-21 80+ → 70+ down after 48 days in tier
  8. 2022-10-04 100+ → 80+ down after 2515 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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Gallery Image Content Post: 30+ active installs, 5.0★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/gallery-image-content-post

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