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Random image gallery with fancy zoom

by gopiplus · Media

This plugin allows you to simply and easily show random image anywhere in your template files or using widgets with onclick fancy zoom effect.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
42 Health · D
Maintenance 5/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

42 health vs 60 average across 1,350 Media plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 6.1.10.

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.

49 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 11/100
WP compatibility 46/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1324 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

-52% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

59

now · peak 157

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

Random image gallery · #16951 Firelight Lightbox · #258 Responsive Lightbox · #317 Simple Lightbox · #325

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

tracked estimate
90–100 ≈97

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations

Details

Version
11.1
Last updated
3.6y ago
Added
2009-09-05 · 16 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.4
Tested up to
6.1.10
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-05-24 100+ → 90+ down after 20 days in band
  2. 2026-05-04 90+ → 100+ up after 17 days in band
  3. 2026-04-17 100+ → 90+ down after 9 days in band
  4. 2026-04-08 90+ → 100+ up after 68 days in band
  5. 2026-01-30 100+ → 90+ down after 1054 days in band
  6. 2023-03-13 200+ → 100+ down after 16 days in band
  7. 2023-02-25 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
  8. 2023-02-24 200+ → 100+ down after 9 days in band

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Random image gallery with fancy zoom: 90+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/random-image-gallery-with-fancy-zoom