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Simple-Picture-View

by gerut · Uncategorized

This plugin adds image links in a sidebar or in the footer.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 57 average across 10,163 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 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40, 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.

28 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 68/100

To rank higher: Last updated 4428 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

-33% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

16

now · peak 59

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

Simple-Picture-View · #29229 Social Space · #16162 Header Footer Code M · #103 Insert Headers And F · #204

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.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈19

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,366 observations

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
12.1y ago
Added
2014-05-30 · 12 yrs on WP
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
3.9.40
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-03-21 20+ → 10+ down after 546 days in band
  2. 2023-09-22 30+ → 20+ down after 226 days in band
  3. 2023-02-08 40+ → 30+ down

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Simple-Picture-View: 10+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/simple-picture-view