Photo Express for Google
by thhake · Uncategorized
Browse and select photos from any public or private Google+ album and add them to your posts/pages. This is an unofficial fork of "Picasa and Goo …
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Health
D 50/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Open vulnerability
Active installs
60+
≈60 estimated
Momentum
+3%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “picasa” and “ckeditor” to your wp.org tags. You rank #12 and #21 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
50 health vs 58 average across 25,755 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →0.3%
of downloads still active
At least 60 of 22.4K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,772 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.
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 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, 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 4081 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 4.2.39; the current branch is 6.8
4.4★ over 20 reviews, smoothed to 4.19★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 4081 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.
37
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
0.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 11d
14%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 11d
-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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| picasaweb your tag | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| picasa | #12 | #5 | 0 |
| googleplus your tag | #20 | #7 | 0 |
| ckeditor | #21 | #16 | down 1 |
| google your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| oauth your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
8 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 4 listed. 4 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Add “picasa” and “ckeditor” to your wp.org tags. You rank #12 and #21 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
- Under-ranked on “googleplus”. wp.org puts you #20; on merit you place #7. The plugins above you are winning on install count, not on rating or upkeep.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 176 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #19,000 to #20,000, alongside the other plugins at 60+ 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.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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 “60+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 60.
Install history since 15 Sep 2015
Security history
via Wordfence Intelligence1 open vulnerability affects the current version (0.3.2). 0 of 1 disclosed are patched.
- 2025-06-23 CVE-2025-27361 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 0.3.2 No patch available
Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.
CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.
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
6 of 8 pass · checked 30 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Browse and select photos from any public or private Google+ album and add them to your posts/pages. This is..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 13 questions in the FAQ.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 7 of 13 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Photoswipe does not work anymore for single images").
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("if you have", "use case", "designed for").
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 29 headings and 37 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 12,366 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 4 tags appear in the text; "googleplus" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-30 50+ → 60+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-10-29 60+ → 50+ down after 149 days in tier
- 2026-06-02 70+ → 60+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2026-05-19 60+ → 70+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2026-05-16 70+ → 60+ down after 91 days in tier
- 2026-02-14 80+ → 70+ down after 59 days in tier
- 2025-12-17 70+ → 80+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-12-16 80+ → 70+ down after 1 days in tier
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