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VA Removing Exif

by kuck1u · Privacy & Consent

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Automatically remove all Exif data from the new JPEG images when uploading.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 66 average across 513 Privacy & Consent plugins

300+

Active installs

≈390 estimated

12.3K

Total downloads

since 2016

3.98★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+11%

188

Downloads · 30d

category median +14%

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 9+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.35, 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.

37 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3541 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 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+11% vs prior 30d
6Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

188

now · peak 332

18830d 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

VA Removing Exif · #10812 you Download Attachments · #2388 Media Search Enhance · #3288 Attachment Importer · #3831

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.

627per 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

9.7y ago

latest release · v1.0.1

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.1 · 9.7y ago1.0.0 · 9.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300–400 ≈390

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

Install history · since 2020-10-24 · 1,386 observations

300Installs · 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.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.1
Last updated
9.7y ago
Added
2016-12-08 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
4.4
Tested up to
4.7.35
Requires PHP
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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more · development strings

Japanese 100%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-03-29 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2025-03-27 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-03-26 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-03-25 300+ → 400+ up after 8 days in tier
  5. 2025-03-17 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2025-03-16 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  7. 2025-03-15 400+ → 300+ down after 632 days in tier
  8. 2023-06-22 500+ → 400+ down after 6 days in tier

Competes with

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