NG Gallery Optimizer Modified

Improves your site's page load speed by preventing NextGEN's scripts & css from loading on posts and pages without galleries.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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45 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 74/100

Support 70/100

45 health vs 59 average across 1,693 Media plugins

30+

Active installs

≈37 estimated

4.5K

Total downloads

since 2013

3.99★

Rating (adjusted)

4.2★ raw · 5 reviews

-54%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 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.

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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 2/100

Rating quality 56/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4925 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-54% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 146

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

NG Gallery Optimizer · #24498 NextGEN Gallery Colo · #13384 NextGEN Gallery Sear · #16897 NextGEN Gallery Opti · #5171

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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

30–40 ≈37

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,381 observations

Ratings · 5 reviews

Details

Version: 1.0
Last updated: 13.5y ago
Added: 2013-01-20 · 13 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 3.1.2
Tested up to: 3.5.2
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

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

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
2023-11-28 50+ → 40+ down after 1 days in tier

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