Total Slider
by Van Patten Media · Media
Transform your experience with sliders forever. A beautiful, true WYSIWYG interface designed to blend seamlessly with the WordPress core.
43 health vs 59 average across 1,846 Media 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 4087 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
32
now · peak 80
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 “90+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-05-12 80+ → 90+ up after 29 days in tier
- 2026-04-13 90+ → 80+ down after 67 days in tier
- 2026-02-05 100+ → 90+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-02-04 90+ → 100+ up after 20 days in tier
- 2026-01-15 80+ → 90+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2026-01-09 90+ → 80+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2026-01-05 100+ → 90+ down after 1079 days in tier
- 2023-01-22 200+ → 100+ down after 5 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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Smart Slider 3 800K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Depicter — Popup & Slider Builder 80K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A -
Carousel, Slider, Photo Gallery with Lightbox, Video Slider, by WP Carousel 70K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A -
Serious Slider 20K+ installs · 3.7★ · 2 shared tags B -
Slider by 10Web – Responsive Image Slider 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C -
Responsive WordPress Slider – HG Slider 7K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/total-slider" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Total Slider — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> Total Slider: 90+ active installs, 3.6★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/total-slider