NG Gallery Optimizer Modified
by Kiran Antony · Media
Also makes 2 other plugins · 170+ installs across the portfolio →
Improves your site's page load speed by preventing NextGEN's scripts & css from loading on posts and pages without galleries.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
20+
≈28 estimated
Momentum
-37%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: One page off on “nextgen gallery addons”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
45 health vs 62 average across 3,286 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.4%
of downloads still active
At least 20 of 4.7K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,321 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 13+ 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.
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 5032 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 3.5.2; the current branch is 6.8
4.2★ over 5 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 5032 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.
31
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 10d
0%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 10d
-0.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| nextgen gallery addons your tag | #13 | #11 | 0 |
| nextgen gallery optimizer your tag | #20 | #19 | 0 |
| nextgen gallery addon | #14 | #12 | 0 |
| nextgen your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| nextgen gallery your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| nextgen gallery plugins your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
7 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 4 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- One page off on “nextgen gallery addons”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- “nextgen”, “nextgen gallery” and “nextgen gallery plugins” 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 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 146 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #25,400 to #28,300, alongside the other plugins at 20+ 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.
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 “20+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 3 months ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 30.
Install history since 16 Jul 2019
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ napsfan13.6y ago
Unfortunately, this plugin didn’t work for me. When activiated, my thumbnail galley was simply vertically titled and looked horrible. Turns out the gallery worked fine when I was logged into WordPress. But as soon as I logged out, I had the same issue (vertical tiling). Looking at Firebug, I noticed that the nextgen gallery CSS was not getting loaded, thus the styling was no good. Ah ha. So I disable this plugin, and everything works fine again. I’ve deleted this plugin and will do it the old-fashioned way — editing my functions.php file to dequeue the nextgen gallery stuff.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ DaveKennedy13.7y ago
This solved my problem of getting individual NextGen images to load properly on smartphones where my responsive theme wasn’t doing the job. Easy to install and it just works! Thanks a lot.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ speppin13.7y ago
I found the lightbox feature to be more well designed with this plugin than when trying to use prettyphoto with nextgen gallery. Plus more options and optimization!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Arun Basil Lal13.8y ago
Love what you have done here, this is a good thought 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Shrikant13.8y ago
That’s really cool idea. because most of sites made in wordpress need this gallery. and it’s very useful for site performance. thanks for this
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.
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
2 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Improves your site's page load speed by preventing NextGEN's scripts & css from loading on posts and pages..."
- ! 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 Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ! Enough to quote 847 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "nextgen gallery addons", "nextgen gallery plugins" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-08-07 30+ → 20+ down after 258 days in tier
- 2025-11-22 40+ → 30+ down after 712 days in tier
- 2023-12-11 50+ → 40+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2023-12-09 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-12-08 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2023-12-07 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-12-06 50+ → 40+ down after 5 days in tier
- 2023-12-01 40+ → 50+ up after 3 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).
- N NextGEN Gallery ColorBoxer 100+ installs · 4.1★ · 4 shared tags D
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NextGEN Gallery Search 80+ installs · 4.2★ · 4 shared tags D -
NextGEN Gallery Optimizer 1K+ installs · 3.4★ · 2 shared tags F - N NextGEN Custom Fields 1K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D
- R Responsive NextGEN Flex Slider Template 200+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
- N NextGEN Gallery Comments 60+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags D
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