Video Reviews / Video Widget
by aharonyan · Media
Also makes 1 other plugin · 200+ installs across the portfolio →
Transform your website with engaging video content. Add a powerful Video Reviews widget to your footer and boost conversions instantly.
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Health
C 57/100
Stale · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈190 estimated
Momentum
+16%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “lightbox”, “video lightbox” and “video popup” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
57 health vs 62 average across 3,280 Media plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →2.3%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 4.4K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Media plugin keeps 0.8%, across 2,317 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Media plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Details
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.
Well optimized
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 686 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.7.11; the current branch is 6.8
5.0★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.17★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Last updated 686 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
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.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| lightbox your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| video lightbox your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| video popup your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| video reviews your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| youtube lightbox your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “lightbox”, “video lightbox” and “video popup” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,488 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 211 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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
1.9y ago
latest release · v1.5.4 · 14 Dec 2024
13
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 74% 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 “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 2.8 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.
Install history since 22 Mar 2022
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.1
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 3 languages, 1 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →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.
Readme readiness
5 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Transform your website with engaging video content. Add a powerful Video Reviews widget to your footer and..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions YouTube, Vimeo.
- ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 1 list; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,997 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 1 of 5 tags appear in the text ("lightbox", "video lightbox", "video popup", "youtube lightbox" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2024-01-10 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-01-08 100+ → 90+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2024-01-04 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2024-01-02 100+ → 90+ down after 14 days in tier
- 2023-12-19 90+ → 100+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2023-12-18 100+ → 90+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2023-12-15 90+ → 100+ up after 6 days in tier
- 2023-12-09 100+ → 90+ 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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Video Popup – Video Lightbox for YouTube, Vimeo & MP4 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 4 shared tags A -
WP Video Popup – WordPress Video Lightbox for YouTube, Rumble & Vimeo 9K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B -
Video Popup – Youtube, Vimeo, Gutenberg, Shortcode, Elementor 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags A -
Video Popup Block – YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok Lightbox by WPZOOM 10K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags A -
ARI Fancy Lightbox – Popup for WordPress 10K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B -
Image and Video Lightbox, Image PopUp 1K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B
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