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Highlight Reel

by JamieCassidy · Uncategorized

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Highlight Reel is a simple Wordpress plugin that enables you to easily display your latest Dribbble shots on your website.

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

45 health vs 56 average across 16,377 Uncategorized plugins

10+

Active installs

≈16 estimated

2.1K

Total downloads

since 2013

3.99★

Rating (adjusted)

4.3★ raw · 3 reviews

+39%

25

Downloads · 30d

category median +19%

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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2, 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.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 53/100
Listing tuning 92/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4931 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

+39% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

25

now · peak 53

2530d 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

Highlight Reel · #38617 you Layout Grid Block · #236 Visual CSS Style Edi · #925 Child Theme Creator · #1668

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.3Stars · Aug 26

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.

2.5Kper 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

13.5y ago

latest release · v1.1

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.1 · 13.5y 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.

v1.1 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈16

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2015-03-26 · 1,369 observations

10Installs · 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 · 3 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
1 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.1
Last updated
13.5y ago
Added
2013-02-23 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
3.5.2
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ dust999
    12.6y ago

    Works right out of the box. Thanks for it! I have only one problem with unlimited number of shots (plugin shows only last 8 shots). In addition, I suggest to add [highlight-reel] short tag on the settings page of this plugin, because I found it on the WordPress search page and had no idea how add a plugin to my site. And if you add size of shots in the settings that would be great!

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  2. ★★★★★ Sarah Gooding
    13.5y ago

    This plugin works well but provides no styling for the list it outputs. It would be cool if, in the next version, the user could select the size they want the shots to be, and if they want the highlight reel displayed in a grid or some other way.

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  3. ★★★★★ garydevenay
    13.5y ago

    Plugin works well and is built very well. Also implements good caching to save on requests. Nice!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4

✓ 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

No tier crossings observed yet.

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Highlight Reel: 10+ active installs, 4.3★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/highlight-reel