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Media Placeholders

by Weston Ruter · Uncategorized

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Redirect requests to non-existent uploaded images to a placeholder service like placehold.it or placekitten.com. For use during development.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 76/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 56 average across 16,378 Uncategorized plugins

60+

Active installs

≈67 estimated

3.8K

Total downloads

since 2013

4.06★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 2 reviews

+35%

77

Downloads · 30d

category median +20%

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 3.6.1, 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.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 2/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4205 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

+35% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

77

now · peak 154

7730d 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

Media Placeholders · #19334 you Disable Media Sizes · #1847 WP Image Size Limit · #4166 WP Sanitize File Nam · #5983

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.

1.3Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

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.

v0.9 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “60+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
60–70 ≈67

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

Install history · since 2015-09-08 · 1,392 observations

60Installs · 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 · 2 reviews

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5★
2 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
0.9.2
Last updated
11.5y ago
Added
2013-08-12 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
3.5
Tested up to
3.6.1
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ holgerhubbs
    10.9y ago

    Thank you!

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  2. ★★★★★ Robert Neu
    11.5y ago

    This is a real time saver if you’re working on a development version of a site with a large media library. Pulling down a copy of the site’s media is both time consuming and pointless 99% of the time. This handy plugin saves you the time of pulling down images or the hassle of making your own workaround via htaccess or WordPress filters. Very nice!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ 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. 2026-06-10 70+ → 60+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-09 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-06-08 70+ → 60+ down after 10 days in tier
  4. 2026-05-29 60+ → 70+ up after 15 days in tier
  5. 2026-05-14 70+ → 60+ down after 233 days in tier
  6. 2025-09-23 80+ → 70+ down after 170 days in tier
  7. 2025-04-06 90+ → 80+ down after 136 days in tier
  8. 2024-11-21 100+ → 90+ down after 740 days in tier

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