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SmugMug Embed

by twicklund · Uncategorized

Allows users to search and embed images into posts or pages directly from their SmugMug accounts.

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

43 health vs 56 average across 16,375 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.5.20.

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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 2/100
WP compatibility 22/100
Rating quality 54/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 2114 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+62% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

60

now · peak 94

6030d 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

SmugMug Embed · #14344 you Autoptimize · #77 WebP Express · #166 Responsive Lightbox · #321

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

3.5Stars · 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.

600per 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

5.8y ago

latest release · v3.13

12

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.13 · 5.8y ago3.12 · 5.8y ago3.11 · 5.9y ago3.10 · 5.9y ago3.01 · 5.9y ago2.0 · 11.4y ago1.0 · 13.4y ago1.01 · 13.4y ago0.93 · 13.4y ago0.92 · 13.5y ago0.91 · 13.5y ago0.9 · 13.5y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 83% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.13 83%
v2.0 17%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈190

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

Install history · since 2015-09-21 · 1,381 observations

100Installs · 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.

Details

Version
3.13
Last updated
5.8y ago
Added
2013-02-14 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
4.8
Tested up to
5.5.20
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. destinationisolation
    12.0y ago

    Just started using SmugMug and this app is great. I wish it would have support for inserting slideshows (just generate the “Show off” code that SmugMug generates and insert it into post), and more importantly, choosing the featured image from my SmugMug.

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  2. Kevin Daly
    13.0y ago

    Great tool so far. Easy to use. It took about an hour to learn.

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  3. luvmyc6
    13.5y ago

    I have been looking for a SmugMug plug-in for my WordPress Blog for the last 2 months and this is the one I have been looking for. It allows me to very easily add (embed) a link to one of my SmugMug gallery images in a WP post. I did not want to actually add the images to the WP Media files, so this is the perfect solution. Also you can configure details for the linked image such as the caption (use default or customize for this link) and what happens when image is clicked. Thanks very much and I hope you continue to develop and support this plug-in. Enhancement Request: It would be great if I had an option for the image “click” link to have it open in a new window. Currently, clicking on the image takes the user away from the blog post and to the SmugMug site. Feel free to contact me for details. Thanks!

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  4. Lord Laughter
    13.5y ago

    actually it crashes the dashbord, you won’t be able to acces your content anymore.

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  5. Lord Laughter
    13.5y ago

    actually it crashes the dashbord, you won’t be able to acces your content anymore.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.5.3

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. 2024-08-19 200+ → 100+ down after 31 days in tier
  2. 2024-07-19 100+ → 200+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2024-07-17 200+ → 100+ down after 6 days in tier
  4. 2024-07-11 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2024-07-10 200+ → 100+ down

Competes with

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SmugMug Embed: 100+ active installs, 3.5★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/smugmug-embed