Video Overlayer
by CobaltApps · Media
Also makes 1 other plugin · 70+ installs across the portfolio →
Video Overlayer is a Plugin that overlays your embedded iFrame videos with an image. Make your embedded videos responsive, branded, cleaner, faster.
47 health vs 59 average across 2,205 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 13+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2, 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 5097 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
31
now · peak 2.5K
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
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.
Release cadence
No release in a yearHow 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
14.0y ago
latest release · v1.0.1
1
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2016-01-01 · 1,367 observations
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
Est. acquisition value
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
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ webdelectable11.9y ago
This plugin works great! Would recommend.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ csborgman13.6y ago
Very easy and work well so far.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ essz13.6y ago
Good job, thanks!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ ryanlit579713.7y ago
Awesome, simple to use and effective. I needed a plugin to make a ustream.tv iframe responsive. It was way easier than I had expected to add a non supported player. I thought I would be in and out of .js / .php files for a bit but non of that was needed…works perfectly. Thank you!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ rowemore13.8y ago
Awesome plugin, great work. Makes videos responsive (at the size they were started at, like the author states, but not if you resize window during playback, but that’s usually OK for most use-cases) and the overlay really does make the page a lot cleaner from a design perspective. I sit your white overlay on top of a gray div, to give the the static white overlay a gray border — it’s a really good-looking treatment. Thanks for this plugin; it did what I was looking for and more.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.4
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-11-20 20+ → 10+ down after 25 days in tier
- 2025-10-26 10+ → 20+ up after 94 days in tier
- 2025-07-24 20+ → 10+ down after 284 days in tier
- 2024-10-13 10+ → 20+ up after 56 days in tier
- 2024-08-18 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-08-17 10+ → 20+ up after 124 days in tier
- 2024-04-15 20+ → 10+ down after 497 days in tier
- 2022-12-05 30+ → 20+ down after 2 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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Simple YouTube Embed 4K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B - R Responsive Video Embeds 2K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D
- R Responsive video embed 900+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags C
- R Responsive Videos by Angie Makes 600+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags D
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Ductile Responsive Video 400+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags C -
Advanced Responsive Video Embedder for Rumble, Odysee, YouTube, Vimeo, Kick … 20K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A
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