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Image Hotspot With Tooltip For WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer)

by themebon · Page Builders

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
40 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 60/100
Support 70/100

40 health vs 69 average across 1,269 Page Builders 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 5.8.15.

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.

44 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 4/100
WP compatibility 32/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1861 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

+37% vs prior 30d
3Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

97

now · peak 182

9730d 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

Image Hotspot With T · #10000 you Amazing Hover Effect · #11817 Hover Effects For Vi · #15782 Image Hotspot Block · #11460

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2Stars · 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.

323per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 97% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.2 97%
v1.1 3%

Estimated active installs

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

modeled estimate
300–400 ≈350

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

Install history · since 2019-11-12 · 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.

Details

Version
1.2.0
Last updated
5.1y ago
Added
2017-09-19 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
4.0.1
Tested up to
5.8.15
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. karakaplan
    5.6y ago

    Many bugs in the plugin. This topic was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by karakaplan.

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  2. nitinv
    6.7y ago

    Uncaught TypeError: $self.waypoint is not a function at HTMLDivElement.<anonymous> (active.js?ver=4.9.4:11) at Function.each (jquery.min.js:2) at n.fn.init.each (jquery.min.js:2) at HTMLDivElement.<anonymous> (active.js?ver=4.9.4:6) at Function.each (jquery.min.js:2) at n.fn.init.each (jquery.min.js:2) at animateTooltips (active.js?ver=4.9.4:5) at HTMLDocument.<anonymous> (active.js?ver=4.9.4:63) at j (jquery.min.js:2) at Object.fireWith [as resolveWith] (jquery.min.js:2)

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  3. Vishit Shah
    7.4y ago

    Js error in plugin. In Admin side click on remove all spots give “Unexpected end of JSON input” error in console please check revert back to me as soon as possible. I read your previous review you do not give answer since last 8 month so please give me replay for positive solution. Thanks Vishit

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  4. WP Dev
    7.8y ago

    JS error in plugin. Also found that I am not alone having same error, In forum i found same error thread: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-when-active/ But Author doesn’t responded still 8 Months. total wast of time.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8

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. 2026-08-30 400+ → 300+ down after 4 days in tier
  2. 2026-08-26 300+ → 400+ up after 5 days in tier
  3. 2026-08-21 400+ → 300+ down after 246 days in tier
  4. 2025-12-18 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-12-17 400+ → 500+ up after 4 days in tier
  6. 2025-12-13 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in tier
  7. 2025-12-10 400+ → 500+ up after 31 days in tier
  8. 2025-11-09 500+ → 400+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

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Image Hotspot With Tooltip For WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer): 300+ active installs, 2.0★ (4 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-30. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/vc-image-hotspot