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Visual Slider

by dastan800 · Media

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Visual Slider for WordPress Custom Slider for WordPress

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
81 Health · B
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 67/100
Support 70/100

81 health vs 59 average across 2,206 Media plugins

600+

Active installs

≈660 estimated

5.7K

Total downloads

since 2023

3.70★

Rating (adjusted)

2.5★ raw · 2 reviews

+25%

233

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

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.

77 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 51/100
Listing tuning 52/100

To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.

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Daily downloads

Since 2023-03-26 · 1,253 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+25% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

233

now · peak 492

22330d 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

Visual Slider · #8242 you Max Elements for Ele · #30388

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

2.5Stars · 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.

372per 1k installs · Aug 26

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 34% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.8 34%
v1.4 21%
v1.1 11%
v1.3 9.8%
v1.2 7.1%
v1.7 7.1%
v1.5 6.3%
v1.6 4.8%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “600+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
600–700 ≈660

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

Install history · since 2023-03-25 · 1,248 observations

600Installs · 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 · 2 reviews

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5★
0 4★
1 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.8
Last updated
3mo ago
Added
2023-03-24 · 3 yrs old
Requires WP
6.0
Tested up to
6.8.8
Requires PHP
7.4.0
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ maturelly1994
    11mo ago

    not working anymore

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  2. ★★★★★ kris006
    11mo ago

    After the last update there is some error and I can’t delete sliders, i.e. they are not saved and can’t be deleted This topic was modified 9 months, 1 week ago by kris006.

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. Medium · 6.1 visualslider Sldier <= 1.1.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ↗
    2025-01-16 CVE-2025-23448 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.1.1 Patched in 1.4

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

✓ 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. 2026-04-26 700+ → 600+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2026-04-24 600+ → 700+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-23 700+ → 600+ down after 279 days in tier
  4. 2025-07-18 600+ → 700+ up after 64 days in tier
  5. 2025-05-15 400+ → 600+ up after 213 days in tier
  6. 2024-10-14 300+ → 400+ up after 131 days in tier
  7. 2024-06-05 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2024-06-04 300+ → 200+ down after 20 days in tier

Competes with

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