Post Slider
by PluginOps · Media
Create beautiful and elegant posts sliders easily in minutes. Supports Default & Custom post types.
37 health vs 63 average across 1,066 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 6+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.24, 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 2480 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 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
36
now · peak 74
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
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 “100+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,373 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2024-06-02 200+ → 100+ down after 2 days in band
- 2024-05-31 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-05-30 200+ → 100+ down after 13 days in band
- 2024-05-17 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-05-16 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
- 2024-05-15 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
- 2024-05-14 200+ → 100+ down after 3 days in band
- 2024-05-11 100+ → 200+ up after 7 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- W WunderSlider Gallery 100+ installs · 3.8★ · 1 shared tag D
- P Post Next 30+ installs · 4.1★ · 1 shared tag D
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