NextGEN Gallery Image Chooser
by umertin · Media
Also makes 1 other plugin · 260+ installs across the portfolio →
Comfortable Image Chooser for the NextGEN Gallery, based on g2image
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Health
B 71/100
Few reviews
Active installs
200+
≈250 estimated
Momentum
+24%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “nextgen gallery plugins” to your wp.org tags. You rank #13 for it without listing it, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 3 listed it's a slot worth spending.
71 health vs 62 average across 3,280 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.1%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 18.4K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,318 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.
This plugin shipped 1 release in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
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.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 319 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.9.11, the current branch or newer
4.7★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.13★ and held back under 25 reviews
3 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
32
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.4
Velocity
places per keyword, 26d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 26d
+0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| image chooser your tag | #1 | #8 | 0 |
| chooser | #2 | #6 | 0 |
| nextgen your tag | #6 | #20 | down 1 |
| nextgen gallery | #11 | #20 | down 2 |
| nextgen gallery plugins | #13 | #21 | 0 |
| pop up image gallery | #15 | #23 | 0 |
| gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
12 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 6 listed. 6 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Add “nextgen gallery plugins” to your wp.org tags. You rank #13 for it without listing it, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 3 listed it's a slot worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 404 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ 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 21 Oct 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
1
releases in the last 12 months
11mo ago
latest release · v1.1.2 · 16 Dec 2025
6
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 “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 24 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 12 Jan 2020
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ PolyWogg6.9y ago
I have a gallery that is mostly about events/things we’ve done. I want to blog about them and insert a few images here and there directly into the text, which you would normally do by INSERT IMAGE from the Media Library, which would also let you select multiples. NGG doesn’t seem to have an option to do that EXCEPT as a gallery, but then I wouldn’t be able to write paragraphs of text between them. I’d like to be able to add the full gallery at the bottom of the post, but throughout, I want 3-5 images just inserted. In NGG and even Pro version, you can’t tag and insert multiple images as just images at once, you have to select it multiple times. This plugin does it perfeclty, AND degrades gracefully — if you delete the plugin later, your inserts still work. This topic was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by PolyWogg.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ designguide11.8y ago
Great Plugin to choose albums and galeries to insert single pics Thank you very much!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ martin12.3y ago
umertin, Your plugin is good. I like NGG very much, but I use only Single-Pic because I need to describe what is going on inside the pictures in my blog. Thus I need a gallery with display picture one by one. NGG is suitable for me at that stage. And the next problem to me is I need to type the Codes display my pictures one by one to insert Every pictures into the blog. Umertin’s plugin simply help me for that. I can select the pictures in a web-2.0 user friendly interface and insert them into my blog by one click (or no more than several clicks). I get what I see when I am writing the blogs and do not need to care so much about the user codes in html language. Umertin did the job for me. I just create this account to write thanks to Umertin. Thank you. Umertin, I wish you every success in your career, especially if you are engaged in programme and solution developing. I hope more people will use this plugin : “NextGEN Gallery Image Chooser” and I SURE will wrote more blogs with this plugin.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1
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.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
3 of 8 pass · checked 26 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ! Says what it does Short description names no action; say what the plugin does for the site.
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gutenberg.
- ! Headings and lists 0 headings and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,754 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text All 3 tags appear in the text.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-11-16 300+ → 200+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2024-11-12 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2024-11-08 300+ → 200+ down after 477 days in tier
- 2023-07-20 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-07-19 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-07-18 400+ → 300+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2023-07-15 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-07-14 400+ → 300+ down after 6 days in tier
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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NextGEN Download Gallery 2K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C - R Responsive NextGEN Flex Slider Template 200+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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Smart Slider 3 800K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider – Image Slider, Video Slider 500K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
Photo Gallery, Sliders, Proofing and Themes – NextGEN Gallery 300K+ installs · 4.3★ · 1 shared tag A -
Firelight Lightbox 200K+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
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