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Responsive Image Maps

by Philip Newcomer · Uncategorized

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Makes image maps responsive by packaging the RWD Image Maps jQuery plugin for use in WordPress.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
52 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 95/100
Support 70/100

52 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, 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.

46 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 4/100
Rating quality 91/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3197 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+105% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

209

now · peak 363

21430d downloads · Aug 26

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

Responsive Image Map · #3652 you Sight · #3761 Hot Random Image · #4376 WP Featherlight Disa · #4649

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.9Stars · Aug 26

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.

54per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How 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

11.7y ago

latest release · v1.4

5

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.4 · 11.7y ago1.3 · 13.8y ago1.2 · 13.9y ago1.1 · 14.0y ago1.0 · 14.0y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.4 99%
v1.3 1.3%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “4K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
4K–5K ≈4.9K

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

Install history · since 2015-05-01 · 1,427 observations

4KInstalls · Aug 26

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

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Details

Version
1.4
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2012-08-16 · 14 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
4.1.42
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. kahlidah
    3.8y ago

    I had created an image map with pure html on wordpress, and it was perfect except for the responsive scaling. I thought I was in for a whole redo of it all, but I installed this plug in and all I had to was activate it and bang..everything scaling perfect without me having to do a thing. Thank you so much for this. I hope it continues to work with future wp updates and will check on that when needed, but for now, its works perfectly.

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  2. kavamura
    5.1y ago

    It works!

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  3. awalsadja
    6.0y ago

    This is the one and only such kind of plugin August 2020, WordPress 5.5, still perfect

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  4. pcnoggin
    6.9y ago

    I couldn’t tell you which version but after one of the latest updates to WordPress, the plugin no longer works for me. It was bound to happen. Email warnings have been issued by WordPress for some time. It hasn’t been tested for the last three major releases of WordPress. Looks as though the plugin development and support has been completely abandoned from looking at the support tickets. I have a simple site using this plugin so it’s not likely to be an issue of a conflict with another plugin. Still could be something on my end but … my take: find another avenue to explore. This is not the plugin you are looking for.

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  5. ngreeves
    7.1y ago

    I was looking for a solution for responsive image maps inside WordPress as a new user. It works beautifully. My only concern is that it hasn’t been updated for a long time. It works just fine at present and I hope future versions don’t break it.

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  6. lydia_b
    7.8y ago

    Works just as advertised on wordpress 4.9.8 with the latest Divi theme and Divi pagebuilder. I’m impressed!

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  7. jpgreen3
    8.1y ago

    I manually added <map> </map> sections with href sections for three images sized for different screen sizes – one each for tiny, tablet and desktop screen sizes. Before installing the plugin the image map overlay was clearly larger than the displayed image, judging by where in the image display the href url displayed at the bottom of the browser changed as I moved the mouse over the image. It appears that after installing the plugin, the displayed image is now larger, and matches the map of the image. This topic was modified 8 years ago by jpgreen3.

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  8. alicia250
    8.5y ago

    Still working, and the easiest plugin ever!

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 1.4 Updated the RWD Image Maps jQuery plugin to version 1.5. 1.4
  2. Version 1.3 Updated the RWD Image Maps jQuery plugin to version 1.4. Images are no longer required to have width/height attributes. Updated readme.txt 1.3
  3. Version 1.2 Updated the jQuery RWD Image Maps plugin to version 1.3, which adds IE8 support: https://github.com/stowball/jQuery-rwdImageMaps/pull/7 1.2
  4. Version 1.1 Fixed path to jQuery plugin Updated readme file 1.1
  5. Version 1.0 Initial release 1.0

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-01-21 5K+ → 4K+ down after 294 days in tier
  2. 2024-04-02 6K+ → 5K+ down after 360 days in tier
  3. 2023-04-08 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2023-04-07 6K+ → 7K+ up after 11 days in tier
  5. 2023-03-27 7K+ → 6K+ down

Competes with

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Responsive Image Maps: 4K+ active installs, 4.9★ (64 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-30. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/responsive-image-maps