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.
45 health vs 59 average across 2,206 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 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4970 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
56
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
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.
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.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2019-07-16 · 1,387 observations
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
Est. acquisition value
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.
Details
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ napsfan13.4y 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 ↗ - ★★★★★ DaveKennedy13.5y 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 ↗ - ★★★★★ speppin13.6y 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 Lal13.6y ago
Love what you have done here, this is a good thought 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Shrikant13.6y 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
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Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.2.4
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 90+ 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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