Gallery Shortcode Style to Head

Moves the gallery shortcode styles to the head so it doesn't break XHTML validation; allows disabling or modifying the default gallery styles.

⚠ 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 61 average across 1,303 Media plugins

100+

Active installs

≈190 estimated

11.7K

Total downloads

since 2008

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

-52%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 4/100

Rating quality 51/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4124 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-52% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 78

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 Shortcode St · #15738 WP Add Custom CSS · #670 Forget About Shortco · #1145 Add Admin CSS · #1875

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

100–200 ≈190

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Ratings · 1 reviews

Details

Version: 2.4
Last updated: 11.3y ago
Added: 2008-08-27 · 17 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.3
Tested up to: 4.1.42
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

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

2024-03-05 200+ → 100+ down after 29 days in band
2024-02-05 100+ → 200+ up after 9 days in band
2024-01-27 200+ → 100+ down after 90 days in band
2023-10-29 100+ → 200+ up after 8 days in band
2023-10-21 200+ → 100+ down after 10 days in band
2023-10-11 100+ → 200+ up after 6 days in band
2023-10-05 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in band
2023-10-02 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in band

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Gallery Shortcode Style to Head: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/gallery-shortcode-style-to-head