mPress Banners
by Micah Wood · Media
Easily create slide-up or slide-down banners on your site with a simple shortcode.
43 health vs 65 average across 911 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33, 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 3694 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
30
now · peak 79
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
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 “40+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-16 50+ → 40+ down after 64 days in band
- 2026-03-13 40+ → 50+ up after 21 days in band
- 2026-02-20 50+ → 40+ down after 10 days in band
- 2026-02-10 60+ → 50+ down after 7 days in band
- 2026-02-03 50+ → 60+ up after 5 days in band
- 2026-01-29 60+ → 50+ down after 199 days in band
- 2025-07-14 70+ → 60+ down after 121 days in band
- 2025-03-15 80+ → 70+ down after 65 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Ultimate Responsive Image Slider 30K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
YITH WooCommerce Product Gallery & Image Zoom 20K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
bSlider – Create Responsive Image, Post, Product, and Video Sliders 6K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B -
GutSlider – All in One Slider and Carousel Blocks for Gutenberg 5K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/mpress-banners" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="mPress Banners — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> mPress Banners: 40+ active installs, 3.3★ (3 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/mpress-banners