No BS Image Slider
by Jon Weatherhead · Uncategorized
Also makes 6 other plugins · 70+ installs across the portfolio →
For displaying a light-weight image slider.
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Health
D 45/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
10+
≈17 estimated
Momentum
0%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “accessible”, “carousel” and “responsive” 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.
45 health vs 58 average across 25,766 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.7%
of downloads still active
At least 10 of 1.4K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,778 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.20.
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 1722 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 5.9.20; the current branch is 7.1
5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 1722 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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| accessible your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| carousel your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| responsive your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| slideshow your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
0 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days. 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “accessible”, “carousel” and “responsive” 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 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 53 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #30,400 to #44,800, alongside the other plugins at 10+ 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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
0
releases in the last 12 months
4.7y ago
latest release · v1.8 · 14 Feb 2022
2
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 “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.
Install history since 4 Oct 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Tim Reeves5.3y ago
Being a minimalist, and needing a replacement for a slider plugin now abandoned, I found this plugin – and reading the description I thought “Wow, sounds great”. And it is. After installing it (it’s a small but non-trivial learning curve to use) I downloaded and unpacked the source. I could hardly believe my eyes! One PHP file, 8.665 bytes; and one CSS file, 1.429 bytes. That’s IT. And btw it’s really well written, the author is obviously a good, modern programmer. The sliders are custom ‘tags’, the slider images are custom posts (I think). Strange is, that you have to supply a ‘Featured Image’ and an image link for each slide, then it works – slides shown in the order of their creation. Just change the creation date to modify the order (untried). One thing I found not so obvious in the UI at first: On hover over the slider then a ‘paused’ icon is displayed top left and the slider is indeed paused. As soon as the mouse goes away, the icon disappears and the animation continues. But at first I thought the paused icon was a button to click to cause a pause, and since it did not I thought the plugin was broken. Silly me, but perhaps there is a way to do it even more clearly? It is now live on the homepage of a german apothecary. BTW minimalists might want to pair this with WP Featherlight as a lightbox. 5 stars really well earned – thanks Jonathan!
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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 2 Nov 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 Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! 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 3 headings and 2 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,448 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 4 tags appear in the text; "slideshow" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
No tier crossings observed yet.
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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Advanced Image Gallery for Elementor – Grid, Carousel & Slideshow 500+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags -
AI-Powered Carousel, Slider, Video & Photo Gallery Blocks by WP Carousel 60K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Slider by Soliloquy – Responsive Image Slider for WordPress 30K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Image Slider 4K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
SlickNav Mobile Menu 3K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A -
Slideshow SE 2K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
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