Wordpress Slider for posts & pages. Supports shortcode and sidebar widget to display slideshow.
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Health
D 43/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
80+
≈88 estimated
Momentum
-28%
low volume, under 1,000 downloads a month
Biggest opportunity: “gallery”, “image rotator” and “slider” 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.
43 health vs 62 average across 3,299 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.4%
of downloads still active
At least 80 of 20.6K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,323 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
63/100Maintenance 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 7.1.
Details
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
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 4158 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 3.5.2; the current branch is 7.1
3.5★ over 4 reviews, weighted for review count to 4.1★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 4158 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| image rotator your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| slider your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| wordpress slider your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| wordpress slideshow your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “gallery”, “image rotator” and “slider” 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.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,490 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 80 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #17,400 to #18,100, alongside the other plugins at 80+ 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 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
11.4y ago
latest release · v1.3.4 · 16 Jun 2015
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 “80+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band yesterday and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 90.
Install history since 12 Jan 2020
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ kevalitaliya8.0y ago
target=”_blank” not working
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Thisnamedoesnotexistattempt3112.0y ago
After install there is no MK slider tab in >Settings. Therefore I cannot use it.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ rafauke13.3y 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 ↗ - ★★★★★ jamshees12313.8y ago
can you please change to pager
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.
This plugin’s searches fall outside the topics measured so far. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 27 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Wordpress Slider for posts & pages. Supports shortcode and sidebar widget to display slideshow."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you want"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,116 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 2 of 5 tags appear in the text ("gallery", "image Rotator", "wordpress slideshow" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-11-02 90+ → 80+ down after 20 days in tier
- 2026-10-13 100+ → 90+ down after 900 days in tier
- 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 386 days in tier
- 2021-10-21 500+ → 400+ down after 385 days in tier
- 2020-10-01 600+ → 500+ 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 -
AI-Powered Carousel, Slider, Video & Photo Gallery Blocks by WP Carousel 60K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Master Slider – Responsive Touch Slider 60K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
Serious Slider 20K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
Gallery Lightbox 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
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