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New Simple Gallery

by gopiplus · Media

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To display images as an automatic slideshow that can also be explicitly played or paused by the user.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
42 Health · D
Maintenance 4/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

42 health vs 59 average across 2,205 Media plugins

20+

Active installs

≈27 estimated

16.2K

Total downloads

since 2010

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

+17%

68

Downloads · 30d

category median +20%

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.12.

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.

45 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 10/100
WP compatibility 46/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 84/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1369 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

+17% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

68

now · peak 167

6830d 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

New Simple Gallery · #24662 you Smart Slider 3 · #78 Photo Gallery, Slide · #160 Responsive Lightbox · #321

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.

3.4Kper 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.

v8.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈27

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

Install history · since 2015-09-12 · 1,387 observations

20Installs · 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 · 0 reviews

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5★
0 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
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Details

Version
8.0
Last updated
3.8y ago
Added
2010-08-10 · 16 yrs old
Requires WP
3.3
Tested up to
6.1.12
Requires PHP
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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. Medium · 6.5 New Simple Gallery <= 8.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection ↗
    2025-09-05 CVE-2025-58881 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects <= 8.0 No patch available

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8.2

✓ 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 45 languages, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

German 3%
Polish 3%
Azerbaijani 1%
Basque 1%
Bosnian 1%
Bulgarian 1%
Catalan 1%
Croatian 1%
Czech 1%
Danish 1%
Dutch 1%
English (Australia) 1%
English (New Zealand) 1%
English (UK) 1%
Esperanto 1%
Estonian 1%
Finnish 1%
French (Canada) 1%
French (France) 1%
Galician 1%
German (Formal) 1%
Greek 1%
Hebrew 1%
Hindi 1%

Plus 21 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-06-17 30+ → 20+ down after 804 days in tier
  2. 2024-04-04 20+ → 30+ up after 55 days in tier
  3. 2024-02-09 30+ → 20+ down

Competes with

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