Shader Spiral Carousel
by FWD · Media
Also makes 17 other plugins · 140+ installs across the portfolio →
A lightweight, responsive multimedia spiral carousel powered by Three.js and custom shaders—smooth 3D transitions
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Health
B 79/100
Few reviews
Active installs
—
not reported yet
Momentum
+50%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “shaders” and “spiral” to your wp.org tags. You rank #4 and #4 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.
79 health vs 62 average across 3,280 Media plugins
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 164 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.0.8, the current branch or newer
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: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
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.
35
Momentum
Losing ground
-1.0
Velocity
places per keyword, 27d
13%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 27d
+0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| shader | #3 | #6 | 0 |
| spiral | #4 | #7 | 0 |
| shaders | #4 | #7 | down 1 |
| 3d carousel your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| image slider your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| video slider your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| wordpress slider your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
8 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 3 listed. 5 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 4 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Add “shaders” and “spiral” to your wp.org tags. You rank #4 and #4 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.
Daily downloads
Since 25 Dec 2025 · 311 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 61 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #49,700 to #68,000, alongside the other plugins with fewer than 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 21 Oct 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.
Estimated active installs
wp.org publishes an install count once a plugin has enough of them. This one has none yet.
wp.org reports no install count for this plugin yet.
Install history since 15 Sep 2026
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
2 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 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 No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("use cases"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions Gutenberg, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo and 3 more.
- ! Headings and lists 4 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 4,268 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 4 tags appear in the text ("3d carousel", "image slider", "video slider", "wordpress slider" missing).
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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Ovation Elements 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 3 shared tags B -
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Slider, Gallery, and Carousel by MetaSlider – Image Slider, Video Slider 500K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Serious Slider 20K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
Slider by 10Web – Responsive Image Slider 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/shader-spiral-carousel" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Shader Spiral Carousel — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Shader Spiral Carousel: no active install count reported, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/shader-spiral-carousel
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