Sherk Carousel Banners Plugin
by SherkSpear · Admin & Utilities
This is the plugin you need when you have to add responsive slideshows and banners in carousels for your websites.
45 health vs 53 average across 3,015 Admin & Utilities 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 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.
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 4081 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
44
now · peak 127
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,377 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-05-17 20+ → 10+ down after 15 days in tier
- 2025-05-02 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-05-01 20+ → 10+ down after 534 days in tier
- 2023-11-14 30+ → 20+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2023-11-12 20+ → 30+ up after 10 days in tier
- 2023-11-02 30+ → 20+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2023-10-19 20+ → 30+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2023-10-17 30+ → 20+ down after 3 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Donations via PayPal 20K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Reusable Blocks Extended 20K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/sherk-carousel-banners" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Sherk Carousel Banners Plugin — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Sherk Carousel Banners Plugin: 10+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/sherk-carousel-banners