Image and video gallery from Google Drive

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40 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 10 listed. 30 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 2 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 93% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

Crossed into this band 3.3 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ T.McGuire

   1.5y ago

   This works great. It is a little nerdy getting it setup in Google – the key is making sure to ‘publish’ your app and not leave it in demo mode. I like that I can use the Google Drive app on my phone an have the images show up right away on my website. This is a fantastic replacement for Photonic users.

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2. ★★★★★ Ketil Ervik

   2.3y ago

   This plugin is only for the specific country in which the plugin has been developed. Having said that, there is a complete lack of correct description of how to configure the plugin. Tried to translate to my language but just got an error after trying to create a google drive api. Without a correct description, this plugin is completely unusable. The link in the program to the documentation directs you to a page that has nothing at all! I’m working on finding another plugin now that might work with sensible explanations!

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3. ★★★★★ jasperscheper

   2.7y ago

   This is a great plugin, saved me a lot of time!

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4. ★★★★★ mindflow

   3.2y ago

   Worked as described This topic was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by mindflow. Reason: update experience

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5. ★★★★★ andyparsons1412

   3.5y ago

   Great plug-in but I get hit with an error every week or so. Rather than showing the photo gallery it’ll just say “unknown error” it isn’t too bad as I just have to revoke and re-grant access to google drive in the settings, but it can be annoying as I don’t want to be monitoring my site for when the error occurs. I would love feedback; if there’s anything I’m doing that’s causing this error to happen. Thanks, Andrew

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6. ★★★★★ drspot

   3.7y ago

   Easy to organize the gallery on the web. Just use your Google Disk.

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7. ★★★★★ ed777vs

   4.0y ago

   Works great! Just follow instructions and you will be fine. Thank you developers for this plugin. So far so good!

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8. ★★★★★ onegard

   4.3y ago

   Yeah I couldn’t get it to work and all the documentation, is what seems to be, in Czech language and no english button anywhere to bee seen. This might be a really good app but if more people have the same problem I had we will never find out.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 2.13.14 Fixed encoding issues with the plugin icon Updated lightbox to v3 , fixing a number of issues 2.13.14
2. — Version 2.13.13 Fixed an issue with gallery expiring after an hour. API access needs to be revoked and re-granted to fix the issue. 2.13.13
3. — Version 2.13.12 Fixed an error with incorrect script MIME types, breaking the plugin on sites with strict checking 2.13.12
4. — Version 2.13.11 Fixed an issue with paths containing shortcuts Fixed collisions with other plugins dues to incomplete dependency scoping 2.13.11
5. — Version 2.13.10 Fixed a race condition that sometimes caused path verification checks to not be run Fixed an issue with shortcode localization not being loaded due to unspecified WordPress action order 2.13.10
6. — Version 2.13.9 Fixed ordering images by time Fixed an error when a video doesn’t have proper permissions Fixed error messages not being HTML escaped 2.13.9

Translated into 7 languages, 3 at 90% or more

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Growth timeline

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

1. 2023-07-23 5K+ → 4K+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2023-07-22 4K+ → 5K+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2023-07-20 5K+ → 4K+ down after 289 days in tier
4. 2022-10-04 4K+ → 5K+ up after 572 days in tier
5. 2021-03-11 3K+ → 4K+ up after 262 days in tier
6. 2020-06-22 2K+ → 3K+ up after 179 days in tier
7. 2019-12-26 1K+ → 2K+ up after 194 days in tier
8. 2019-06-15 800+ → 1K+ up after 155 days in tier

Competes with

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Image and video gallery from Google Drive: 4K+ active installs, 4.3★ (39 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/skaut-google-drive-gallery