Featured Image Thumbnail Grid

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

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.

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.

26 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 9 listed. 17 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.

Directory rank

Ranked about #10,100 to #11,100, alongside the other plugins at 300+ 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.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 58% 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 11 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

1. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   7.7y ago

   I use this to create a nice index of my album pages. Being able to specify the page category makes this super-easy.

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2. ★★★★★ Miles

   10.3y ago

   Plugin works as it’s intended, but it took quite a while to find the documentation. Found a lot of references to shortcodes, but couldn’t actually find working demos/examples for a solid 20 minutes after installing. Instructions on the plugin page/settings weren’t very helpful, had to go to the author’s website. Seems like information that could be easily included on the WordPress plugin homepage or in the Admin settings.

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3. ★★★★★ wpexpert.zahid

   10.6y ago

   Thank You Adrian For such nice plugin.

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4. ★★★★★ Integrantsvs

   10.6y ago

   I’ve been using this for quite a while now, on many sites. It is the BEST plugin to use if you are looking for a gallery plugin, but don’t want to hassle with the other options.

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5. ★★★★★ pazzaglia

   10.7y ago

   I’ve been using this plug-in for YEARS. It is on one of the most trafficked pages on my website – a visual archive or recipes. Without it I would have had to spend days, weeks or months trying to figure out how to tweak PHP. Instead it was really easy to get this to work out of the box and the plug-in author has continued to maintain and change it. A while back, I posted in support that none of the thumbnails had and “ALT” attribute and that this was seen as an error from W3C website checker. Guess what?!?! She updated the plug-in to add this! Before that she did extensive trouble-shooting with me in the support forum to style the grid as I wanted. Really a FANTASTIC plug-in with FANTASTIC support. Thanks and keep-up the good work. I wish all the other plug-ins that I use were as well supported and updated as this one. Ciao, L

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6. ★★★★★ pooparoop

   11.5y ago

   With a little tweaking on the plugin attributes, I was able to achieve the result I was looking for for a while. A request made in the support section was quickly replied to by the creator and was indeed implemented in the plugin a few days later in a new version! Thank you

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7. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   11.7y ago

   Great Plugin with some nice options – displays ellipsis for too long titles, titles on or off. Very nice!

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8. ★★★★★ Marjolaine12

   12.3y ago

   Great plugin, I had an issue with my grid (probably because I’m not very technical!)but the support was excellent. Adrian was quick to help until my problem was fixed. Love my new grid!

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The 1 disclosed vulnerability is patched in the current version (7.10). Sites still on an older version should update.

1. Patched Medium · 6.4 Featured Image Thumbnail Grid <= 6.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-03-11 CVE-2025-28918 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 6.8 Patched in 6.9

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.1

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.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-12-03 400+ → 300+ down after 9 days in tier
2. 2025-11-24 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-11-23 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
4. 2025-11-21 300+ → 400+ up after 6 days in tier
5. 2025-11-15 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
6. 2025-11-13 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-11-12 400+ → 300+ down after 135 days in tier
8. 2025-06-30 500+ → 400+ down after 41 days in tier

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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Featured Image Thumbnail Grid: 300+ active installs, 4.7★ (10 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/thumbnail-grid