Wordpress Slider for posts & pages. Supports shortcode and sidebar widget to display slideshow.
43 health vs 59 average across 2,204 Media plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 3.5.2, 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4094 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
61
now · peak 80
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
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
11.2y ago
latest release · v1.3.4
7
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2020-01-12 · 1,386 observations
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
Est. acquisition value
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.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ kevalitaliya7.8y ago
target=”_blank” not working
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Thisnamedoesnotexistattempt3111.8y ago
After install there is no MK slider tab in >Settings. Therefore I cannot use it.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ rafauke13.1y ago
I was looking for couple of hours until I found MK Slider. It does EXACTLY what I need. You can make as many sliders as you want, with different dimensions, effects, custom loaded CSS files and content. It can work as a banner rotator, slider or anything really. Because of the easy PHP implementation you include it in awesome conditions to appear and how it should behave. You can place them anywhere because of the shortest shortcode I have seen for a slider. Maybe I am talking about obvious things for some people but really, I have checked numerous “top xx sliders for wordpress 2013” rankings and MK Slider was not there, don’t know why… Way better than e.g. Nivo Slider or Meta Slider that are too complicated to be honest with their shortcode structure. This works best, I use it on 4 sites already. Keep it up man, your plugin is awesome!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ jamshees12313.6y ago
can you please change to pager
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-04-26 200+ → 100+ down after 464 days in tier
- 2023-01-18 300+ → 200+ down after 68 days in tier
- 2022-11-11 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2022-11-10 300+ → 400+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2022-11-07 400+ → 300+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2022-11-04 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2022-11-03 400+ → 300+ down
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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Smart Slider 3 800K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider – Image Slider, Video Slider 500K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel 70K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider 60K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Serious Slider 20K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
Gallery Lightbox 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B
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